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Airliners.net photo of VMFA 232 on Nimitz shows  agm 65 / fuel / fuel / gbu 38 / gbu 12

 

My question is as I cannot see the port fuselage would there be a sensor mounted on the intake station?

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The picture you refer to is from June 2007, at a time when the older targeting systems was still in use, atleast on that perticular deployment on the Nimitz.

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Today, USMC units usually carry the Litening pod on the centerline.

 

Spain and Canada however carry them on station 4, although Spain also carry it on centerline on occations. 

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Depends on what you want to see basically. If you're looking down, you don't have any obstruction from the tank. If you need to look sideways you may want to bank the aircraft to get a straight line of sight, or change direction or similar that will give you clear sight. 

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Back then the Legacy Hornets always flew with the what was called "double ugly", meaning a tank on centerline and a tank on the right wing so the T-Pod would have a better FOV.

 

Standard load out for that period/AOR was;

 

Station 1 - AIM-9X or Empty*

Station 2 - GBU-12D/B

Station 3 - GBU-38(v)2

Station 4 - ATFLIR

Station 5 - Drop Tank

Station 6 - Empty

Station 7 - Drop Tank

Station 8 - AGM-65E

Station 9 - AIM-9X or Empty*

 

* Only 1 AIM-9X was carried, either on station 1 or 9, whichever station was easiest to get to when loading.

 

NOTE: The Litening Pod is no cleared for CV Ops.

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