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sight in isolation, they did it with the full cooperation and knowledge of the US Army. USA has been using red dot sights for over a decade in very trying conditions, and I think they know what they want and what the reliability is under the proposed service conditions. If it wasn't for forward thinking government and private engineers, the Army would still be using Trapdoor Springfields and .45-70 ammunition. Arguably, the push for better weapons has never come from the tip of the spear, it's always come from the labs and their desire to support those men. Fire away...
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Then we transitioned to the F/A-18. OH MY GOD! It's all about computers talking to computers. That was the same set of problems as the F-16 hunk-o'-junk. ( Current software is capable of accurately diagnosing 80% of detectable faults... . Yeah, right. Who gets to fix the remaining 20%? What about the guy stuck with a persistent non-detectable fault?) That's where the system of smart machine, dumb technician failed miserably.
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If a step failed you instantly knew what was wrong. It was dead nuts simple. Sounds like a GWM-4 tester. Used on the AIM-9 launchers - as long as you remembered to remove ALL of the missiles from the other wing before starting the checks! Then we transitioned to the F/A-18. OH MY GOD! It's all about computers talking to computers. That was the same set of problems as the F-16 hunk-o'-junk. ( Current software is capable of accurately diagnosing 80% of detectable faults... . Yeah, right. Who gets to fix the remaining 20%? What about the guy stuck with a persistent non-detectable fault?) That's where the system of smart machine, dumb technician failed miserably.
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the test you would move a knob to a different position and read the meter. If a step failed you instantly knew what was wrong. It was dead nuts simple.
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Memory check: Nope. The -20 checkers were for AIM-7 stations; Lots of solenoid eyeballs for checking the different functions. I don't want to go through this again. Five or six years ago I was unable to convince you that Navy/Marine F-4's could not carry AIM-7's on the outboard stations. It is obvious that you still assume that everything including nomenclatures still revolve around the Air Force. Think of it this way, NAVAIR is doing it just to confuse us. <G No sweat. Even our USAF AN/AWM-20 checkers had NAVAIR on the nameplates. We just used them as intended: as a single- station AIM-7 launch tester. (Thick cable, ending in a big, blue large-pin socket, and a small motor fire pigtail. The big socket plugged into the green AIM-7 wafer, with the thick and widely-spaced gold-plated pins.) BTW - by 1970 or so, even the USAF had removed the TG-76 single- channel tuning drives from the outboard pylons on their ratty-ass old F-4Cs. They couldn't hang AIM-7s on the outboards, either, anymore. John, I have never, ever seen any armament listing, or any photo, showing an AIM-7 being capable of loading on an O/B pylon. They _could_ be carried singly on the original I/B pylons (for a total of six AIM-7s), used by the navy and the early F-4Cs (identifiable by the straight top leading edge), before the F-4C and all subsequent USAF model F-4s went to the stronger I/B pylon with the curved top leading edge. IIRR the original I/B pylon design carried the AIM-7 directly on the bottom as a rail mount, instead of an ejector
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John, I have never, ever seen any armament listing, or any photo, showing an AIM-7 being capable of loading on an O/B pylon. They _could_ be carried singly on the original I/B pylons (for a total of six AIM-7s), used by the navy and the early F-4Cs (identifiable by the straight top leading edge), before the F-4C and all subsequent USAF model F-4s went to the stronger I/B pylon with the curved top leading edge. IIRR the original I/B pylon design carried the AIM-7 directly on the bottom as a rail mount, instead of an ejector
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