GBU-12 on inner pylon

[Avantar]

This may have been asked in the past but I have not been able to search for it with success.

 

Is only 1 GBU-12 for inner pylons correct? Will there ever be option for a TER with 2 GBUs on it?

[Frederf]

Probably not. It's not a developed and cleared load IIRC. Oddly TER-MK82 is I think.

[Nealius]

A bit inconsistent with the availability of triple Mavs despite that not being a cleared load either....

[QuiGon]

Is TER-MK82 not cleared on the inner pylons IRL?

 

And I thought triple Mavs are cleared for wartime use if necessary.

[mvsgas]

Unless someone gets a hold of a USAF 1F-16()-1-2 circa 2007 we can only guess what was clear to carry where. Using another countries -1-2 would not help since every country have different capabilities. An example of this is the Iraqi F-16C block 52, brand new F-16 that can't carry AIM-120. Not only does the aircraft does not have the software (AFAIK) the wing station do not have the needed connections and there are no AIM-120 available for them to load nether.

 

Not sure if back then The Technical Orders already had change to CM on the tittle or the -1 series was still using CJ.

 

I know by 2010, block 40/42 -1 series was still using CG.

 

I know that from 1997 to 2012, in the 310 FS, 36FS, 510 FS, 555FS, 9th FS*, 8th FS*, 7FS*, 35 FS, and 80 FS we did not have, use nor plan to use LAU-88 (any version) Weapons crews did not train to load them, pilot did not train with them and No combat mission I was ever part of ever use LAU-88. Not over Iraq, not over Afghanistan.

 

* F-117 Units (from 2004 to 2007)