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Old 15th Jul 2020, 08:35
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Harley Quinn
 
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Originally Posted by Easy Street
The F-15 has never had a weapons bay and it’s hard to see how one could be added that could fit more than one or two missiles (possibly by bulking out the fuselage cheeks as for conformal fuel tanks). But they haven’t done that. So “deep magazine” is horrific jargon meaning “can carry a large number of weapons” which, compared to F-35 and F-22, it can.
Thank you ES; just another case of the marketing department stretching the English language beyond what it can respectably be expected to bear I suppose.
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