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In recent months Eduard launched two strange bombs, about I can not find anything in internet:

PAVE Way I Mk 83 Hi Speed LGB Non-Thermally Protected 1/48

GBU-11 1/48

There will be another one on July:

PAVE Way I Mk 83 Hi Speed LGB Non-Thermally Protected 1/48

Anyone can explain me what those bombs are, when and where wer used and what aircraft could carry them?

 

 

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Both are Vietnam vintage. The GBU-11 is a 3000-lb. laser guided bomb primarily used in the Vietnam era made by adding laser guidance and fins to a M118E1 bomb. Same with the Mk 83 - guidance kit and fins added to an Mk 83 bomb.

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Another question regarding the GBU-11: I wasn't able to find pictures of operational loadouts in Vietnam. Osprey's book Operation Linebacker I 1972 has an illustration on its cover, but there is only a short text of a mission using them. So my question: what was a typical loadout? 1 or 2 GBU-11, ECM pods,..?

And which squadrons used them?

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A pic i seen, no longer available on the web, had a 3000lb LGB on the right inboard pylon and a 2000lb LGB on the right side, nothing on the belly. You can always add a ECM in one of the forward missile wells if you wish. Here is one on the trailer with a 2000lb on behind it:

 

Trailer with 3000 lb bomb.

 

Jari

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On 5/15/2019 at 6:22 PM, ElectroSoldier said:

World Airpower Journal did a book about the F-4 Phantom II

It had a wonderful section near the back full of useful information with old bombs like this.

Hi could you write me what exactly number has this World Airpower Journal ?

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On 5/15/2019 at 7:33 PM, pigsty said:

And "non-thermally protected" means they have the smooth finish for Air Force use, not the rough finish for Navy use.

Normally yes however as Mr Vark rightly says  the Mk 83 was a navy weapon inspite of there being no thermal protective coating.

 

Buddy lasing was common back then so the carrier doesnt need to carry or even be capable of carrying a laser designator of any type.

 

The book is very common

WAPJ McDonnell F-4 Phantom Spirit in the skies

ISBN 1-874023-28-X

 

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Thermal coating didn't come around until 72 and then it wasn't widely in service until 73 so seeing GBU's with no thermal coating during the Vietnam War isn't surprising. During the late stages of the war, it wasn't uncommon to see both TP and NTP bombs mixed on the same aircraft

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35 minutes ago, GW8345 said:

Thermal coating didn't come around until 72 and then it wasn't widely in service until 73 so seeing GBU's with no thermal coating during the Vietnam War isn't surprising. During the late stages of the war, it wasn't uncommon to see both TP and NTP bombs mixed on the same aircraft

I saw the rough finish on bombs in 68, right after Tet calmed down. Not many, but a few dozen.

gary

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52 minutes ago, ChesshireCat said:

I saw the rough finish on bombs in 68, right after Tet calmed down. Not many, but a few dozen.

gary

Don't know what you saw on those bombs but it wasn't thermal protection coating.

 

TP coating development started after the Forrestal fire but kicked into high gear after the Enterprise fire. The first bombs didn't start to reach the fleet until late 71 early 72 and the supply was sporadic, a steady supple of TP bombs didn't happen until 73.

 

Also, in the early days TP bombs went to the ships and were not sent to shore units. Even today it's rare to see a TP bomb on a shore based plane.

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Here are some Mk-82s on a F-4D, note not a particularly smooth finish as that is how they were made, click on the pic to zoom in:

 

Mk 82 unfused.

 

Edit: Here is the pic with a M-118 LGB:

66-8815.jpg

 

Jari

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Thank you all for your posts, very much appreciated!

Jari, the video you postes shows some very interesting loadouts. The pic from your last post is one of the few images of the M-118 which I found on a Phantom. It seems that there is a GBU-10 on the left inboard pylon?

 

 

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8 hours ago, GW8345 said:

Don't know what you saw on those bombs but it wasn't thermal protection coating.

 

TP coating development started after the Forrestal fire but kicked into high gear after the Enterprise fire. The first bombs didn't start to reach the fleet until late 71 early 72 and the supply was sporadic, a steady supple of TP bombs didn't happen until 73.

 

Also, in the early days TP bombs went to the ships and were not sent to shore units. Even today it's rare to see a TP bomb on a shore based plane.

During Tet in 68, the bomb dump and the napalm storage was blown up, as well as the POL. I sat on a hill top a little south and got a ring side seat( out on an LP). The bombs were going off about every three to five minutes for the whole next day! We were into Chu Lai daily to get drinking water and dump the trash, and the route took us right past these areas. Of course we didn't go up that road for about a week. When we finally got the go ahead from the MP's, there still was nothing in there but burnt up stuff. But our trip took us right past the flight line (what was left), and we saw these bombs that were very rough looking, with a cast iron look to them. They were unloading them right out of an LST and bringing them strait to the airbase. Perhaps they're something different; I don't know, but they were not machined on the outside. Even the napalm canisters looked different. They had a pointed nose while the others had a flat nose. They flew them into Danang or Cam Rhon, and transferred them onto LST's. Same for jet fuel I might add. That was quite an event to watch I might add

gary

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