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An NAIM-120A advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) mounted on the fuselage station of an F/A-18A Hornet aircraft during a loading demonstration

Marine ordnancemen guide an NAIM-120A advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) into position on an F/A-18A Hornet aircraft during a loading demonstration

Marine ordnancemen discuss procedures for mounting an NAIM-120A advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) onto an F/A-18A Hornet aircraft during a loading demonstration

An Air Force Systems Command Armament Division F-16A Fighting Falcon aircraft launches an AIM-120A advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) toward a QF-100 target drone. (Substandard image)

A bomb transporter is loaded with AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles and AIM 120 AMRAAM (advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles). They will be loaded into an F-15E Eagle at Aviano Air Base on 21 February 1996 during Operation Decisive Edge in support of Operation Joint Endeavor

A 33rd Tactical Fighter Wing F-15C Eagle aircraft makes its landing approach. The aircraft is carrying AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles under its wings and AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs) on its fuselage

A Strike Fighter Squadron 125 (VFA-125) F/A-18D Hornet aircraft ascends after taking off from NAS, Fallon, en route to the B-20 air combat maneuvers training area. The aircraft is armed with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile

An Air Force Systems Command Armament Division F-16A Fighting Falcon aircraft launches an AIM-120A advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) toward a QF-100 target drone. (Substandard image)

A Strike Fighter Squadron 147 (VFA-147) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft is launched from the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) during flight operations aboard the vessel

An NAIM-120A advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) is transported to an F/A-18A Hornet aircraft during a loading demonstration

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Base: Marine Corps Air Station El Toro

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Jeff Slayton

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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15/09/1983
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label_outline Explore Naim, Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, El Toro

A underside view of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4)

A technician cleans the canopy of an F/A-18A Hornet aircraft of the Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron

An Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) before it is dropped into a "Catcher's Mitt" during a ground ejection test from the wing of an F-14A Tomcat aircraft at the Pacific Missile Test Center

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jason Westerfield, 113th

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Vietnamese refugees evacuated from Saigon are processed at the air station passenger terminal before departing for Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton

Left side view of an RF-4B Phantom II aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531 (VMFP-531) taxiing out from the squadron area for a local training mission

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16J Fighting Falcon fighter from the 78th Fighter Squadron (FS), carries a Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) system and is fitted with AIM-9 Sidewinders, AGM-88 HARM (mid-wing) and AIM-120 AMRAAM Slammer missiles on its wingtips, flies near the Iraqi border in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH 1998

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Robert J. McElmurry,

As seen through the canopy of the No. 1 aircraft, a wingman in an F/A-18A Hornet aircraft holds his position slightly behind and to the right of the leader. Both aircraft are from Strike Fighter Squadron 192 (VFA-192), which is assigned to the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41)

An F/A-18A Hornet aircraft of Marine Corps Strike Fighter Squadron 314 (VMFA-314), fires a AIM-9M SIdewinder missile over Naval Air Station Fallon firing range

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Sam Kimple, a weapons loader

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naim medium range missile amraam hornet aircraft hornet aircraft demonstration california marine corps air station el toro air to air missile fa 18 a hornet us marine corps high resolution marine corps air station el toro a 18 a hornet aircraft phan jeff slayton public domain aircraft photos us national archives