"David E. Powell" wrote in message ws.com...
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"Paul J. Adam" wrote:

In message m, David
E. Powell writes
Third. did the F-102 have a gun or just internal missiles in a weapon
bay?

Falcon missiles (six IIRC) in the bay, plus 24 x 2.75" rockets (launch
tubes in the bay doors). From memory there were twelve tubes each with
two rockets nose-to-tail: this was sometimes downloaded to twelve, and
F-102s in Vietnam did some very light ground attack (using their IR
sensor to find targets like campfires and the rockets to engage). My
recollections may be at variance with the facts, so check before using


Thanks! I hadn't known about the 2.75 rockets, sounds like the F-94
Scorpion. The Falcon must have been a decent missile, the -106s and other
fighters used them into the 80s and early 90s.

The Northrop Scorpion was the F-89; the F-94 was the Lockheed Starfire.
Both carried 2.75 inch unguided rockets: the Scorpion in wingtip pods
that also carried jet fuel, and the Starfire in the aircraft's nose
and in small pods halfway out on the wings.

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