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LT. CMDR. John Leenhouts Florida....An air-to-air right side view of a Strike Fighter Squadron 136 (VFA-136) F/A-18A Hornet aircraft. The aircraft is armed with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on the right wing tip. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

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Air-to-air left side view of a US Air Force F-16CJ Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 78th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Wing, Shaw AFB, South Carolina (SC). The aircraft carries AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), and an AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16CJ Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 55th Fighter Squadron, Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina (SC), armed with AIM-120C Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), flies while participating in exercise Combat Archer, a Weapons System Evaluation Program (WSEP) hosted by the 83rd Fighter Weapons Squadron located at Tyndall, AFB, Florida (FL)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16CJ Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Wing, Shaw AFB, South Carolina (SC), taxies onto the runway during Operational Readiness Exercise Sea Lion 02-01. The jets carry a load of weapons that include the AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder and AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-radiation Missile (HARM)

US Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General (BGEN) Larry New, Commander of the 325th Fighter Wing (FW), Air Education and Training Command (AETC) located at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida (FL), leads a formation of four F-15C Eagle fighters from the 1ST, 2nd, and 95th Fighter Squadron's (FS) and one F/A-22 Raptor (right) from the 43rd FS, each flown by their respective Squadron Commander

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LT. CMDR. John Leenhouts Florida....An air-to-air right side view of a Strike Fighter Squadron 136 (VFA-136) F/A-18A Hornet aircraft. The aircraft is armed with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on the right wing tip. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

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Three unidentified US Air Force Munitions people carry a AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile on the flight line towards a F-16 Falcon, Block 52 aircraft (the only such aircraft in the Air National Guard) from the 157th Fighter Squadron and assigned to the 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire ANG Station South Carolina. Lans Stout, a visiting free-lance photographer from Atlantic Beach, Florida, captures pure beauty in flight (OCT 97). This photo was used for a picture story in the popular "Code One" magazine

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