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F/A-18E Hasegawa 1/48... help??


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I cannot see this depression (at least it is VERY attenuated).....any help?

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here instead it is more evident .... maybe it is only on the right side? :hmmm:

 

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TIA.

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The port side fuselage station normally carries the ATFLIR. This station can carry an AIM-120 with the addition of the launcher being installed. In your pictures there is a blank off installed for the launcher and ATFLIR. If you look closely at your second pic you can see a slight indentation on the edge of the blank off just above the RBF flag.

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19 minutes ago, Jonathan_Lotton said:

Ya know...just in case they need to haul a sparrow on that station...

 

That's what I would have thought it was for. Looks like Hasegawa exaggerated the indent though. I'll have to dig out one of my Revell kits and see what theirs looks like.

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The Revell F-18E (and I would think their F too but I didn't check) have the same indentation. I think it must be to allow for a Sparrow mounting as Jonathon mentioned.

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More likely to mount an AIM-120, especially the older large-fin variants (which has the same fin spacing as the Sparrow)

Note sure if they've ever bothered to mount the AIM-7 on the E/F operationally (I know it's at least approved)

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15 hours ago, mawz said:

More likely to mount an AIM-120, especially the older large-fin variants (which has the same fin spacing as the Sparrow)

Note sure if they've ever bothered to mount the AIM-7 on the E/F operationally (I know it's at least approved)


Rhino's have hauled sparrows operationally, it's just not common. 

 

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23 hours ago, mawz said:

More likely to mount an AIM-120, especially the older large-fin variants (which has the same fin spacing as the Sparrow)

Note sure if they've ever bothered to mount the AIM-7 on the E/F operationally (I know it's at least approved)

The wings and fins of an AMRAAM are about a third the size of a Sparrow, there was never a "older large-fin variant".

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37 minutes ago, GW8345 said:

The wings and fins of an AMRAAM are about a third the size of a Sparrow, there was never a "older large-fin variant".


AIM-120A/B has larger fins than AIM-120C/D, which had the fins clipped for internal carry on F-22.

The fin spacing is the same as Sparrow, not the fin size (which I never claimed)

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1 hour ago, mawz said:


AIM-120A/B has larger fins than AIM-120C/D, which had the fins clipped for internal carry on F-22.

The fin spacing is the same as Sparrow, not the fin size (which I never claimed)

My apologies, I misunderstood what meant by "larger fin".

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