Originally Posted by
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What's the purpose of the strange looking device with what can only be described as antenna sticking out of it mounted on the inner launcher on the starboard wing?
ACMI (air combat manuveuring instrument) pod - as Safeware said, it's used to link the fighter into the control station at a range so that 'kills' can be assessed real time and then is used as a very valuable de-brief aid to show what happened when during a training mission.