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Just submit a bug report.
Plan on it, just want to make sure there isnt a more modern unclassified document someone has saying the other thing first.
AIM-9L captive trainer missile equipped.
Older manuals can miss things as well.
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A-7E Corsair II should honestly get the AIM-9L too since it’s going back to 10.7 BR apparently. (even though it was just recently moved back to 10.3 lol).
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It would need the ability to self laze, and there is no pod listed so it cannot use them.
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Anything about Walleyes, GBU-15’s, or later versions of the Maverick?
Is the LANA pod not a laser designator?
Its just a FLIR pod for spotting targets
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I am searching currently and found that a document lists the PAVE Penny pod may have been used on the A7.
(found under electronics)
I found a document that lists this pod under the nose as the Pave Penny pod
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AIM-9Ls would make A-7E go to 11.3.
The first noted use of these were on the post Vietnam war A7Ds’
Pave Penny is a laser spot tracker, not a laser designator.
It picks up where someone else is illuminating a target with a laser, and gives an indication in the pilot’s HUD so that they can steer the aircraft towards that target.
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I realized this after looking through more documents, mb.
That and mavs F yes
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Source?
Pave penny it isn’t laser designator, it spot tracker to see external designation.
A-7E is also in dire need of getting 4x AIM-9s like it should have
Curious how such a large amount of US aircraft are just missing their AIM-9 carrying capability: F-104C, A-4E, FJ-4B, AV-8B, all of them missing 2 more AIM-9s
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I haven’t a manual (I’ll try to find one though) but here’s a pic of it carrying some.
AFAIK the mavs used similar or same pylons as the AGM62s
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Which is fine since all the new top-tier aircraft now are going to be 13.0+ BR minimum.
(Not like the A-7K with only 2 x AIM-9Ls on a subsonic shit brick-turning attacker was ever 10.7 BR material enough to begin with…)