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Old 7th Jul 2022, 17:49
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A couple of other details that have not been discussed in this thread re:RaiderX gull wing door weapons deployment:

1. The entire rack with stores is hanging from the single-cantilever door, which looks to be operated with short-coupled linear actuators pushing on lugs. This seems like it would be extremely structurally difficult to create a sufficiently stiff deployed-door state - particularly with the major historical vibration problems on every X2 platform ever built.

2. Rotation of the stores rack into the deployed position (~ 90 degrees or so) would also apply torque and spin the seeker heads on guided munitions like AGM-114.
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