Was at the Pearl Harbor aviation museum and they had an F-111 with something mounted under the fuselage. What is it? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
That is the AN/AVQ-26 Pave Tack laser/infrared targeting pod. I am surprised to see an RAAF aircraft in a US museum.
Pave Tack was fitted to USAF F-111F aircraft, which were all digital. RAAF wanted to fit Pave Tack to their analog F-111Cs and we helped them do it at the F-111 depot at McClellan AFB in Sacramento, CA. Took a big digital adapter to do it. Like us, the RAAF made their F-111Cs available to just about any museum that wanted one after the F-14A compatible parts were removed.
