Harrier GR.9 AIM-9 Acquisition rounds...

[CornishRebel]

Hi gang.

 

i'm curreently building the Trumpeter 1/32 Harrier GR.9

(I have the Wolfpack 100% LERX etc.)

 

I also have the Wolfpack BOL rails, and some Flightpath AIM-9 Acquisition rounds.

my query is...

 

would they be carried on both BOL rails, or only on one?  If only on one, what would be on the other one, to balance the load?

 

cheers.

 

Phil 👍

[Dave Fleming]

I beleive it's a dummy pod as a counterweigh

 

http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/3/2/1314235.jpg?v=v40

 

 I've seen ones with a pseudo seeker head as well

 

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK-Air-Force/British-Aerospace-Harrier-GR9/1694775/L

 

 

Edited September 6, 2017 by Dave Fleming

[CornishRebel]

Thanks.

[Des]

Going by my own images taken on visits onto the flightline at RAF Kinloss and RAF Leuchars during TLT and CQWIC exercises it was AIM-9 Acquisition round with seeker head to port and RAIDS to starboard , both carried on BOL launch rails although not always both at the same time.      Sorry that I cannot post any of the images to show you but still not sorted out anything after the Photobucket debacle but here are links to reports I posted on Milavia.net that have some of my older images   -  http://www.milavia.net/specials/cqwic/index.htm   and  http://www.milavia.net/specials/cqwic_kinloss/index.htm   -  that might help.

Edited September 6, 2017 by Des
addition for clarification

[Des]

1 hour ago, Dave Fleming said:

I beleive it's a dummy pod as a counterweigh

 

http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/3/2/1314235.jpg?v=v40

 

 I've seen ones with a pseudo seeker head as well

 

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK-Air-Force/British-Aerospace-Harrier-GR9/1694775/L

 

 

Just to clarify that it is not a dummy pod being used as a counterweight - it is a Rangeless Airborne Instrumented Debriefing System or RAIDS Pod and the 'pseudo seeker head is merely a grey coloured nosecone as opposed to the more usual white.     Essentially it combines GPS technology, a memory card and a data-link to provide a rangeless ACMI capability that records and allows the replay of the actions of all pod equipped aircraft involved in a sortie.

 

They have been in widespread and everyday UK service since shortly after the turn of the century and unless an aircraft is actually involved in live combat operations they are the store most likely to be seen day in and day out under the wing (or over with the Jaguar) along with perhaps an AAM acquisition round and depending on role a CBLS with practice bombs during routine squadron flying and exercises.     Over the past fifteen or so years they have been  or still  are carried on one of the usual missile launch stations on the Tornado F.3 and GR.4 , Harrier GR.7/9 and T.10/12, Jaguar GR.3/3A ,  Hawk T.1A but not the T.2 which has embedded mission software that does the same job, Typhoon T.1/3 and FGR.2/4 although they have added weights attached and the Dassault Falcon 20's operated by Cobham as well as by various publicity shy foreign air arms.

[Dave Fleming]

Thanks Des, I'd forgotten about RAIDS