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India Four Two
2nd Jan 2024, 10:35
What is this external store and why is it carried that way? Too big for the bomb bay?
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/916x1230/b1b_554eb2290be706a3950fdcf56164bc0b42388357.jpg
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a34789047/b-1b-lancer-cruise-missile-test-video/
The U.S. Air Force released new footage of a test (https://youtu.be/hLhtPsxEjJk) involving the B-1B Lancer bomber (https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a28225107/b-1-bomber-badass-plane/) carrying a new Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM)
PPRuNeUser0211
2nd Jan 2024, 10:56
What is this external store and why is it carried that way? Too big for the bomb bay?
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/916x1230/b1b_554eb2290be706a3950fdcf56164bc0b42388357.jpg
Don't recognise that one in particular but they quite frequently carried a targeting pod on the chin pylon in the past.
Could it be a trial of the developing AGM-181 LRSO (slated to replace the AGM-86 ALCM from 2027)?
Edited: I see the question has already been answered above.