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Images of the 50th Tac Fighter Wing team at the Gunsmoke air-to-ground weapons competition at Nellis AFB, October 1983. Some will remember that these markings were in Hasegawa's first issue of their long running F-16A kit in 1/72nd scale. 80-0561 81-0666 81-0672 81-0682 81-757 Thanks for looking, Sven
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The 52nd Tac Fighter Wing team out of Spangdahlem AB at the Gunsmoke Aerial Gunnery Competition, Nellis AFB, October 1983 71-1079 72-1067 74-1052 74-1638 74-1639 Gotta love the lo-viz shark mouth... Very odd. This is F-4E 74-1639, yet the "Identi-Plate" looks like it is a generic stencil. It starts with the very first production F-4E, 66-0284, and goes up to 69-0236. Yet this is a 1974 production contract year airframe. Even if it is generic, its use makes no sense. The data block is supposed to identify the production block number so that maintainers and aircrew know the equipment and structural configuration of the jet. The inclusion of the words "Identiplate Location" is also strange. Maybe this jet escaped the paint barn without the aircraft specific data block being applied here? Thanks for looking, Sven
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Some rather bland Vipers of the 363rd Tac Fighter Wing out of Shaw AFB. Representing the 9th Air Force at Gunsmoke '83 Competition, Nellis AFB, October 1983. 79-0398 80-0511 80-0524 80-0531 Thanks for looking, Sven
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A-7Ds of the 166th Tac Fighter Squadron, 121st Tac Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard out of Rickenbacker AFB. Gunsmoke '83, Nellis AFB, November 1983. 70-0965 71-0347 71-0360 72-0260 Thanks for looking, Sven
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The 4th Tac Fighter Wing team out of Seymour-Johnson AFB at the Gunsmoke Aerial Gunnery Competition, Nellis AFB, October 1983 71-0243 73-1166 73-1166 73-1196 74-1625 Thanks for looking, Sven
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The 3rd Tac Fighter Wing team out of George AFB at the Gunsmoke Aerial Gunnery Competition, Nellis AFB, October 1983. All the other F-4E teams (4, 35, and 52 TFWs) at Gunsmoke 1983 were in Euro 1 camouflage. The specification for Euro 1 on the F-4E only came out in Early 1983 and the stateside units received the required paint stocks first. The 52nd out of Spangdahlem received the paint stocks before Gunsmoke and painted their Gunsmoke participants Euro 1 while the rest of the wing didn't get Euro 1 for at least a couple of months. The 3TFW at Clark probably had not received the Euro 1 stocks yet, so their entrants got a fresh SEA wraparound camo just before heading to Nellis. 71-0238 71-0239 71-1083 71-1085 71-1391 Thanks for looking, Sven
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The 35th Tac Fighter Wing team out of George AFB at the Gunsmoke Aerial Gunnery Competition, Nellis AFB, October 1983 67-0216 67-0229 67-0248 68-0351 68-0474 Thanks for looking, Sven
