Thoughts?
Its an interesting one, captive training round inboard. Is this from a museum?
I remembered seeing it a few months ago, looked into it and it’s stationed at Culdrose I think, some kind of maintenance training example or something? There’s more details about the photo in the link if you want to go down a rabbit hole for it
I suspect, its likely they don’t have the outboards for it and have just moved the wiring to they can mount it inboard. Yeah I’m going with this, given the photo is 2017 long after the Shar retirement.
We could always get in touch with them and ask, I’m sure that’ll go well :P
Have contacted Culdrose in the past, they weren’t particularly helpful.
Would these change anything? Had inboard + outboard pylons in 2005, with a photo of just inboard with a missile in 2010? Different Harrier too (just doing some quick-ish google searches)
Still doesn’t confirm the wiring is still present for the outboard pylons. My FA.2 manual has nothing but fuel and dumb weapons on those pylons.
1 Like
Is Sea Eagle classed as a dumb weapon? Thought that was inboard as well
Sea Eagle isn’t even in the manual at all as a suspended weapon. Bear in mind the FAA was already running out of Sea Eagles when the FA.2 entered service.
There are the odd mentions here and there.
This section covers why;
2 Likes
Interesting, Thank you
Is there any chance that that wiring is what was used for the harriers I sent, or would it not be possible to alter like that?
I couldn’t say if the Sea Eagle wiring is usable for sidewinder, I have my doubts.
I really hope we get a proper roll out of ASMs at some point.
4 Likes
Courtesy of @Flame2512 and the National Archives. By the time of FA.2 they only had 3 left for test firing for the remaining life left in the missile. It was pretty bleak.
4 Likes
I suppose carriage of Sea Eagle and WE.177 on the inboard of Sea Harrier suggests it was wired similarly to the SWDERU/HDERU stations on Tornado, which generally don’t have any wiring for AIM-9
5 Likes
I noticed this on the HUD image
Spoiler
Is this an error or something
An error for what?
It has g for gravities not a rate of acceleration