What's the correct placement of missiles for the F-15C on its pylons? What does the USAF use?
I was looking at photos on this website (http://www.af.mil/photos/index.asp) and did a search for "F-15" to bring up some pictures. Lots of amazing photos came up and in some of them you can see a few Eagles with different missile placements. For instance, if you look at this photo you can see that an AIM-120 is on the outside wing pylon and an AIM-9 is on the inside wing pylon (closest to the plane). Now, in this photo and this photo you can see an AIM-9 on the outside pylon and an AIM-120 on the inside one. Which one is the official placement for these missiles on the wings? Is there an official placement? I know LOMAC has the former placement, where the AIM-120s on the wings are always on the outside, but I don't think I've seen a loadout where they had an AIM-9 on the inside and an AIM-120 on the outside when making a mission.
How about for the belly of the F-15C? Say that I'm flying a real Eagle, and I want a loadout of four AIM-120s, two AIM-7s, and two AIM-9s. On the belly, would I put the two AIM-7s on the front and the two AIM-120s on the back, or would the reversed way be official? I'm taking the missile placements from this photo here (look familiar? :D). It looks like he has two AIM-7s in the front and two AIM-120s in the back. I came to this conclusion because the missile in the back looks a tad bit skinnier than the AIM-7 in the front.
See, the reason I'm asking is because I made a custom loadout with the last picture in the previous paragraph in mind. But then I saw the photos of the F-15Cs with the AIM-9s on the outside and AIM-120s on the inside wing pylons and it threw me off completely. It seems that it all comes down to the pilot's choice, but does it? If anyone knows I'd appreciate it ten-fold. It's nothing major, but something interesting ... to me, at least.