F-100 Stores/Armament Identification

[Uncle Dick]

Came across this interesting image of "LETHIFEROUS LOLA" (BTW LETHIFEROUS MEANS EITHER OBSOLETE/ARCHAIC OR LETHAL/DEADLY - a new word for my vocabulary!)

 

Need some help in identifying the store on the inner port pylon (with the yellow stripe - which usually means its "live" ordnance) you can also see the same store on the far left on another Hun image from www.aircraftslides.com

 

 

 

[Finn]

They are SUU-41 dispensers:

 

 

edit: another pic:

 

 

Jari

Edited November 7, 2018 by Finn

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Anyone make these in 1/48th or 1/72nd ? 

Edited November 7, 2018 by Corsairfoxfouruncle

[Uncle Dick]

Thanks for the identification - apparently according to another forum they were only in use from 1968 to 1970? 

 

Did a quick search on google - unfortunately looks like no one makes them in 1/72 or 1/48

Edited November 9, 2018 by Uncle Dick

[beppe]

Just a thought, maybe you could start from a QRC 490 massive chaff dispenser made by isradecal.

 

Looks like the shape is roughly the same.

 

 

Joseph

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

8 hours ago, beppe said:

Just a thought, maybe you could start from a QRC 490 massive chaff dispenser made by isradecal.

Heres the QRC-490  

I think the shape is very close if not the same. 

 

[beppe]

the number of chaff cassettes equal the one of cluster adapters   I Think is the same, only modified by the IAF to carry chaff instead of gravel CBU

[Finn]

Upon further looking the waters became a little muddy as the dispensers could be one of these 3:

 

SUU-36 (30 BLU-45/B tactical, subsurface, antivehicle landmines) :

 

 

SUU-38 (10 KMU-338/B adapters to dispense 30 individual mine canisters each containing eighteen (18) wide-area antipersonnel mines) :

 

 

 

SUU-41 (150 XM41E1 mines, or 750 XM40E5 anti-intrusion mines, or a mix of 650 XM40E5 mines and 48 XM44 antipersonnel mines) :

 

 

they are very similar, just the payloads were different. I also found mention being made of CBU-33A as the official designation of a type used in Vietnam:

 

http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/057/057g.html

 

you can zoom in on the pic.

 

Jari
 

Edited November 11, 2018 by Finn

[beppe]

CBU-33 consisted in 30 BLU-45/B in an SUU-36/A.

 

Shape wise, I think you can use the isradecal massive chaff dispensers.

 

The problem is to find them.

 

Joseph

[Slater]

USAF used a bewildering variety of CBU's in Vietnam. Some worked as advertised and some didn't. At war's end (and afterwards) relatively few types survived as standard inventory items.