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F/A-18E CAP load


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You should probably distinguish between a normal peacetime load and a WW III scenario.  For a normal load one or two AIM-120s and a pair of AIM-9Xs.  For WW III it would probably bump up to four or five AIM-120s.  The weapons loads used by carrier based aircraft are often surprisingly light due to the number of stores on board a carrier, "bring back" weight, and maintenance issues.  During the Gulf of Sidra Incident one of the F-14s only carried a pair of AIM-7Fs and a single AIM-9L (the other AIM-9 station was broke, so no missile was loaded there), while the other jet  had a 2 x 2 load of the same missiles.  Going further back, when Freckleton and Weigand killed a MiG-17 over Vietnam they launched on a dedicated air to air mission with no AIM-7s loaded on their F-4B (their radar was hard broke) and only three AIM-9Ds, because one of the AIM-9 stations was bad.

 

Regards,

Murph

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