Saturday, January 05, 2008

F-16 New Arctic Colors

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Staff Sgt. Cory Goines thumbs through a technical order manual for finishing instructions while Senior Airmen Kevin Stevens and Matt Wuensch take care of the final details on a newly painted arctic scheme F-16 Fighting Falcon Nov 30 at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea. All are aircraft structural maintenance journeymen with the 8th Maintenance Squadron, which painted the aircraft in preparation for an upcoming Eielson/Kunsan F-16 swap. The aircraft is the first unit to have the arctic scheme. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Tech. Sgt. Quinton T. Burris)

Weapon specialists look on as a mock up of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator sits in bomb bay of the B-2 weapons load trainer Dec. 18 at Whitman Air Force Base, Mo. The MOP is approximately 20.5 feet long, with a 31.5-inch diameter and a total weight of slightly less than 30,000 pounds. The weapon will carry over 5,300 pounds of explosive material and will deliver more than 10 times the explosive power of its predecessor, the BLU-109. It is designed to penetrate up to 200 feet underground before exploding. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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