F-86A/E/F(early): Armament: Six 0.50-in M-3machine guns with 300 rpg. There were two underwing hardpoints for weapons carriage. They could carry either a pair of 206.5 US-gallon drop tanks or a pair of 100 lb, 500 lb, 1000-lb bombs, 50-pound napalm tanks, or 500 pound fragmentation clusters. Four zero-length stub rocket launchers could be installed underneath each wing to fire the 5-inch HVAR rocket, which could be carried in pairs on each launcher.
F-86F(late): Armament: Six 0.50-in M-3 machine guns with 300 rpg.There were four underwing hardpoints. All four hardpoints could handle either 120- or 200-US gallon drop tanks, but only the inner pair could carry ordnance, up to 1000 pounds for each pylon.
As the F-86 was faster and more maneuverable than any version of the F-84, it was used in Korea mainly as a fighter, while the F-84 was used mainly as a fighter-bomber (ground attack first, fighter second).