Reply With QuoteSomething to do with inflight refuelling possibly? Im no expert and this is just a reasonably educated guess as a result. I am most likely wrong.
Does anybody on Combat Aircraft know what the lines?
Does anybody on Combat Aircraft know what the lines that run along both sides of the forward cockpit down to the leading edge of the wing on these Romanian Air Force Mig-21 Lancer is for? Is it an avionics upgrade? It looks to me that they are only on the two seat variants. Photo from Target Aviation Photography website and airplane-pictures.net.
Something to do with inflight refuelling possibly? Im no expert and this is just a reasonably educated guess as a result. I am most likely wrong.
Yes. I'd say they are fairings for additional wiring related with avionics upgrade.Originally Posted by thounaojamtom
EDIT : Yes. Doesn't look like a fuel line to me. As i beleive they don't have IFR capacity, it has to be the fairing protecting the wiring you can see on the picture below.
"The two-seater Lancer B has advanced ground-attack capability. The avionics installed on both Lancer A and B permitts an increase of the accuracy of hitting the targets, due to continuous calculation of the impact point, launching a bomb on re-established coordinates and dive bombing facilities. The ground-attack aircraft are painted in 2xgreen and 2xbrown colors on the extrados and in [COLOR=light blue]light blue[/COLOR] on the intrados."
Last edited by Laurens31; 02-15-2013 at 02:10 PM. Reason: additional info
Not an expert, but those old MiGs and Sukhois were never made to be endlessly upgraded. There's not much internal space for new innovations. Add-ons over the last twenty or thirty tears have been literally added on, hence the humps, bumps, ridges and lumps.
if they are for inflight refueling, where is the fuel probe?
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