An F-16CJ, "Wild Weasel" aircraft, attached to the 13th Fighter Squadron at Misawa Air Base, Japan, pulls up to the refueling boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker, 141st Air Refueling Squadron (ARS), New Jersey Air National Guard, over Eastern Turkey. Both, the 13th FS and the 141st ARS, deployed to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey as part of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. The F-16 is armed with AIM-120A Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) on the wing tips, AIM-9 Sidewinders, and inside are AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-radiation Missile (HARM). Also carrying two 370-gallon fuel-tanks on the inner most wing positions
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN WATCH
Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana
Country: Turkey (TUR)
Scene Major Command Shown: Combined Task Force - ONW
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Ashley Sorrels, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
08/09/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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