An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 492nd Fighter Squadron, sitting on the RAF Lakenheath tarmac. The Eagle is carrying two 600 gallon fuel tanks, an AAQ-13 Navigation Pod (left), an SUU-20 Practice Bomb Adapter, an AAQ-14 Targeting Pod, and an AIM-120A Advance Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM). The AAQ-13 and AAQ-14 are part of the LANTIRN (Low-Altitude Navigation and Targeting InfraRed for Night) system
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: RAF Lakenheath
State: East Anglia
Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)
Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE
Scene Camera Operator: SRA James L. Harper Jr., USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
22/11/2002
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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