Originally Posted by LowObservable
Absolutely! At 400 knots, you push a half-ton mass off the ejector rack and it keeps going down! Awesome!
Yep, in hindsight I guess a low level ingress followed by a 6.5g pullup, an inverted release at 3000ft, and a 5g 120 degree pullaway would have been much more appropriate for the VERY FIRST weapons clearance drop from the aircraft...
Interesting that it had an AMRAAM shape inboard and two AIM-9Xs outboard for this first drop too...