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Just found this photo. Does somebody know what is this thing under the left wing?

http://www.af.mil/media/photodb/photos/ ... 9G-056.jpg
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It looks hard on a dummy HARM missile (just missing the fins). But I'm not 100% sure, so if anyone has another thought.

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Yes, CATM -88 HARM no wings or fins attached. Strange, no Slammers loaded.

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Looks like it is in a practice range with a data link pod on the outher right wing tip. It also has a strange pod on the right chin. Anybody know what that is?

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Thats an HTS pod.
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It's on the tanker, or near it, notice the IFR door is open. It's one of our birds, a 14FS jet. Might be in CCIP right now, I don't recall flying it lately.
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Coming off of the tanker. See the fuel streaks behind the IFR door. Ask the pilots, but I think that they always bank right after toping off, and ingress from the left. It's been a few years since I got to watch that though.
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It has a bad left flaperon ISA also. Note the H-fluid on the leading edge of the stab. You can be guaranteed that is out of limits.

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You're right about the Left Flaperon. 816 is in the depot right now and I changed that ISA last week. It had an ecessive leak with 3000 PSI, and the bearing race on the rod was spinning. Rudder ISA was bad as well, it leaked even worse.
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Ask the pilots, but I think that they always bank right after toping off, and ingress from the left.


It just depends. Sometimes it's left to right but not always. Usually 1 will go straight to the boom, 2 will go to the left wing, and 3+4 will go to the right wing. Refueling order is then usually 1-3-2-4, going back to the wing you started from.
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Unfortunately we can't see the right stab, but I bet you would see the same streaks there as well. When they hit tankers, the fuel that is spilled during disconnect causes the flaperon bays to sometimes get fuel in them.
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