Tour de suisse: Sion, Payern, Emmen and the rest...

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Great photos!!! I also have to try out the other airfields beside Sion someday
The Sion ones therefor look very familiar :wink: :lol:

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Thanks for the comments guys..

Whilst editing the rest of the pics I came along the pod under the J-5026. I did some googling, but even on the internet there seems to be some confusion as I have found identical shots of pods with different captions?!! Anyone any idea of what this particular pod is? Alledgedly the Swiss have aquired an AN/AAS-38 and AN/ASQ-228?

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My guess is the AN/AAS-38(A)
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I've found these two articles about the Swiss F/A-18s update program and the pod is part of that update:
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/swi ... ram-04471/
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htproc ... 71226.aspx

As the articles say, the pod is the AN/ASQ-228A(V) ATFLIR and 20 of them were bought in order to equip Hornets.
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