February 21, 2009 at 6:28 pm
A lot of sources say the Lavi had “seven underfuselage stations (three tandem pairs plus one centreline”.
Text from first link:
The weapons carriage of the Lavi was mainly semi-conformal, thus reducing drag, with two hardpoints beneath each wing (the inboard pair was wet for the carriage of two 2,548 liter auxilliary fuel tanks), plus the wingtip rail and seven underfuselage hardpoints (three tandem pairs plus one on the centreline).
It’s pretty easy to see the centerline position, but where are these tandem pairs? Under the wingroots, and semi-conformal as the link says?
Some links:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/lavi.html
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Cavern/6130/iafm_lavi.htm
http://www.airforceworld.com/fighter/gfx/lavi/lavi_1.jpg
Thanks.