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F-16 Weapons Loadout
poibrudda6
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Posted: Friday, April 27, 2012 - 11:20 AM UTC
Aloha everyone!!

Does anyone have any pics of an F-16 carrying a MER loaded with 500lb JDAMS? Do they even carry JDAMS in this fashion?

Thank you in advance for you help!!
ViperEnforcer
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Posted: Friday, April 27, 2012 - 11:44 AM UTC
The F-16 does not use MERs
fhvn4d
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Posted: Friday, April 27, 2012 - 01:46 PM UTC
I found a couple pictures on the internet with TERs on them.. and a loadout that shows it can carry TERs with Mk-82s. MERs are 6 rack I believe and I didnt see any of them on the pictures I saw.
ViperEnforcer
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Posted: Friday, April 27, 2012 - 02:45 PM UTC
Nope; no MERs for the Viper.
However, both GBU-38s and GBU-12s can be hung on the standard Wing Weapons Pylon (One per pylon) or 2 GBU 12/38 per TER or BRU-57.
poibrudda6
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Posted: Friday, April 27, 2012 - 06:08 PM UTC
Thank you Brian, Mike. I guess I did mean TER instead of MER but while I've seen pictures of 2 GBU-12's on a TER I've yet to see a loadout of 3 GBU-38's per TER on each wing. I guess that's what I was looking for.
ViperEnforcer
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Posted: Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 07:24 AM UTC
You probably won't see it; 3 GBUs hung on a single F-16 TER, unless there are no wing tanks installed; which is not typlical, even in Flight test. Even without wingtanks, it's still common to only have 2 GBUs are hung on a TER.

When a TER is hung and there are already wingtanks installed, GBUs can only be hung only the outboard and center TER stations.

Mike V

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