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that's a design by the italian communist aircraft designer called bartini. it was a long range bomber design for USSR which was supposed to land on water to take care of the problem with finding airstrips at the extreme limit of their flight range.
Looks in low level terrain following flying the Hawk and Harrier are much more mavourable and hence pilots fly them faster than EF and F-15.
I noticed the F-15's have drop tanks so I thought they were F-15'C. But some of those F-15's also seem to be having CFT's, do F-15E's carry drop tanks?
^^ Couldn't spot a single bird with CFT, but then again i watched the video on my mobile so i am bound to have missed a few things... Could you tell me at what time in the video did you spot Eagles with CFT's???
Aditya_Vsaar,
All most all the photos of the Strike Eagles that i have seen shows them carrying a Drop Tank..
My guess is they are being used as ballast for balancing as the payload is released..
To extend its range, the F-15E is fitted with two conformal fuel tanks (CFT's) that hug the fuselage, producing lower drag than conventional, underwing fuel tanks. They carry 750 U.S. gallons (2,800 L) of fuel, and house six weapons hardpoints in two rows of three in tandem. However, unlike conventional fuel tanks, CFT's cannot be jettisoned, so increased range comes at the cost of degraded performance with respect to the F-15 as a result of the additional drag and weight. Similar tanks can be mounted on F-15C's, but the range/performance tradeoff is typically not worth it for an air superiority fighter.
The number of different aircraft developed and retired by both sides during the cold war is simply staggering. Here's another example of the many short lived military aircraft (still built in rather large numbers by today's stds.) of the cold war:
Bala is right. It is the F4D Skyray one of the first carrier borne supersonic interceptors. To illustrate my point, the Skyray was operational for a grand total of 8 years before it was retired. Yet, the amirkhans built over 400 of them
Well that extension under the Phantom's nose housed the primitive IRST system (I think it was called the AAA-4 IR sensor). I think only the navy's F4J version didn't have it. They probably removed it and covered the housing with the metal tip.
Chiru,
The gun pod was on the underbelly pylon and in the later version a pylon was removed to place the gun there...
The one Boseullah is pointing to is an optical sensor of some kind..
yep nachiket was right ...its the infrared detection system !
Advertisement published in an aviation magazine in 1964 by ACF Industries Inc., Electronics Division Paramus (N.J., USA) for their infrared detection system on a nose section of a McDonnell F4-B Phantom.