F-4 in Unique Loadout Configuration

i can't find that forum where it appeared first in 2013 what i think first its from our's forums
 
I have seen an AA-8 Aphid aquisition round fitted on a rail back to front (I'm wondering if as a ground joke or an actual trial tho ?)
 
If you want something hilarious I remember seeing many years ago a photograph of an F-106A fitted with MER stores pylons loaded with Mk-82s where it normally carries its' drop-tanks. It apparently was done as some sort of practical joke by the armourers for a visiting general;):D.​
 
TsrJoe said:
I have seen an AA-8 Aphid aquisition round fitted on a rail back to front (I'm wondering if as a ground joke or an actual trial tho ?)
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They later tried an R-73 with a solid fuel booster, and that required radar cueing. At the beginning of WWII they tried fitting 82mm rockets to fire backwards from Kamov autogyros and Pe-2 bombers for self-defense.

The R-60M could acquire the target using its own seeker, so one could launch it with just ensuring the wiring was correct. It can also be launched without forward velocity (e.g. from a ground launcher), although I'm not sure how well it would do being released backwards at high speed. It certainly would have a very short range.

This is my long winded way of saying - yes, it may well be an actual trial.
 
Avimimus said:
They later tried an R-73 with a solid fuel booster, and that required radar cueing. At the beginning of WWII they tried fitting 82mm rockets to fire backwards from Kamov autogyros and Pe-2 bombers for self-defense.

The R-60M could acquire the target using its own seeker, so one could launch it with just ensuring the wiring was correct. It can also be launched without forward velocity (e.g. from a ground launcher), although I'm not sure how well it would do being released backwards at high speed. It certainly would have a very short range.

This is my long winded way of saying - yes, it may well be an actual trial.
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Thread 'WW2 Soviet rear firing systems.' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/ww2-soviet-rear-firing-systems.39882/
 
Probably a test to assess how open were really the eyes of that pilot during those morning pre-flight check.
 
Dilandu said:
I'm not even sure how they done this - IRRC, the locking devices should not allow such misplacement?
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I would imagine that it wouldn't be too difficult for the armourers to install the hanging lugs back to front. Electrical interfaces presumably won't line up, but as there's (hopefully!) no intention to fly the configuration, much less drop it, that's not really a concern.

Compared to rigging a toilet to be dropped from a bomb rack, hanging a bomb off an aircraft backwards is probably fairly straightforward.
 
Yellow Palace said:
I would imagine that it wouldn't be too difficult for the armourers to install the hanging lugs back to front. Electrical interfaces presumably won't line up, but as there's (hopefully!) no intention to fly the configuration, much less drop it, that's not really a concern.

Compared to rigging a toilet to be dropped from a bomb rack, hanging a bomb off an aircraft backwards is probably fairly straightforward.
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It's a dumb bomb, no electrical interfaces to worry about.
 

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