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RetPara
3 April 2010, 19:31
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/RetPara/A10closeupwithR2Unit.jpg

No wonder the A10 can take so many hits....
Savoy6
3 April 2010, 20:35
Nice.
Ranger1
3 April 2010, 23:55
No idea what that is, but someone that drives an A-10 please paint that thing to look like R2-D2 and post a picture.:cool:
nofear
4 April 2010, 00:07
Pfft....that's a fission power core...
SHOOB
4 April 2010, 11:28
It's a horizontal flux capacitor.
sixgun
4 April 2010, 12:37
ICBWrong, but that looks like a test bird from years ago - orange test & measure probe mounted & the SAT Antenna is original style?

Perhaps a fuselage test mount of a FW ALQ-144 IR CM system?

Or, a new photo showing the USAF's new COMCAST tie in so the pilots have cable in the hooch AND the A/C...
Fofo
4 April 2010, 14:50
So, the A-10C(?) now has an R2 unit, and what appears to be an iron right behind it... :smile:
Boats
4 April 2010, 14:52
So, the A-10C(?) now has an R2 unit, and what appears to be an iron right behind it... :smile:

-That's an auxiliary lift unit, designed for tight turns while fully loaded...
Bravo_One_Three
4 April 2010, 17:28
It's on an A-10, thus it must have something to do with the conversion of targets into pink mist or smoking holes... one would hope.
hawkdrver
4 April 2010, 20:38
Sixgun is correct - that's a C-model test setup, probably at the 422 TES. But the "R2" is the antenna for the EGI (Embedded GPS/INS) system, and it's been around quite a while...well before the C model came out. The antenna behind that is the SATCOM antenna if anyone is curious.

Having said that, I like the original idea better. :biggrin: