9 missiles fighter: F/A-18 Super Hornet equipped with an unprecedented amount of ammunition (photo)

The entire arsenal is supplemented with an infrared and tracking system, as well as atflir. The recently published photos of the F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter is shown with an unprecedented number of "air-air" missiles, including four AIM-174B. The fighter is also equipped with three missiles of the AIM-1220 AMRAAM medium radius and a pair of AIM-9x Sidewinders a short radius. About it writes The War Zone.

All of the above arsenal is supplemented with an infrared and tracking system, as well as atflir. For the first time, these photos appeared on Instagram Point_mugu_skies. The images are definitely retro-variant F/A-18F from the test squadron (VX-9) "Vampires": in relation to weapons, then these are all inert shells, which is visible behind blue stripes. Marking on AIM-174, in fact, means that it is a idle of CATM-174B ammunition.

Four large rockets under the wings-training versions of SM-6 missiles running from the air-AIM-174B. Their presence was officially recognized only this summer. It is reported that at some level they are already used. There is also a version of the Air-Air-Air-Air-Air Range (AMRAAM)-driven rocket, controlled by radar. AIM-174B is considered an extremely important program for the US Navy, as it is directly aimed at China's aircraft, whose fighters are beginning to exceed American.