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variable
09-05-2006, 12:03 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/variable/mw1b.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/variable/mw1a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/variable/mw1c.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/variable/gr1jp233.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/variable/gr1jp233-2.jpg

Now the first one attached to German Luftwaffe Tornado is probably supposed to wreck runways and stuff. But what's it called? And what about the second one?

Thanks in advance.
flanker7
09-05-2006, 12:06 PM
I don't remember very well but I think the german one is called WS1 or something like that and the british JP223
-Max2-
09-05-2006, 12:09 PM
For the last two pics, its the Hunting JP233 anti-runway system :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP233

Dont know for the first three pics...
FozzieBear
09-05-2006, 12:09 PM
At the peak of its strength, the Luftwaffe had five Tornado strike wings. This JBG 38 aircraft, based at Jever, carries an MW-1 weapons dispenser, the German equivalent to JP 233. Underwing are a BOZ-101 chaff/flare pod (port) and a Cerebrus ECM pod (port). The Tornado wears the lizard scheme adopted from 1983.

http://www.sirviper.com/fighters/tornado/luftwaffe.jpg
variable
09-05-2006, 12:12 PM
Thanks a bunch. Now that was fast. Discussion ends here:)
p$ycho+log!cal
09-05-2006, 12:49 PM
sick! thanks for the infos every one :D
bluffcove
09-05-2006, 03:12 PM
Crap weapon that requires low straight slow passes directly along a runway!

SAM heaven! meant that the Brits lost shed loads (be percentage) during GW1
Noob Brit
09-05-2006, 03:59 PM
Crap weapon that requires low straight slow passes directly along a runway!

SAM heaven! meant that the Brits lost shed loads (be percentage) during GW1

Only one aircraft was lost on a JP233 mission and it went down well beyond its target several minutes after the weapon was delivered. That said, it's a weapon system that's long since had it's day and was never designed to be deployed against airfields the size of heathrow in the middle of flat, featureless desert.

How it would have fared at night, in bad weather, in rough terrain against it's intended Eastern European airfields we'll never know.
bluffcove
09-05-2006, 04:16 PM
Hence "by percentage."

How many missions did the RAF fly during op desert storm?