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- Aircraft Armament Equipment (AAE), also known as Aircraft Armament Systems or Aircraft Ancillary Equipment, encompasses all equipment that is or can be attached either permanently or temporarily to an aircraft, the use of which allows for the carriage and release of airborne stores. AAE includes bomb racks for all practice and tactical, single and multiple weapon design configurations and their aircraft peculiar fairings; pylons and adapter hardware; missile launchers, including their related entities such as power supplies, nitrogen receivers, and aircraft peculiar pylons; adapters, rails, and interface components. Most military aircraft, such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and similar vehicles, are usually equipped with an external aircraft stores suspension and release system. External aircraft stores may include bombs, mines, missiles, rockets, torpedoes, detachable fuel tanks, flare and chaff dispensers, refueling or gun pods, ECM and ESM pods, thrust augmentation pods, towable target/decoy pods, and suspension equipment, such as drop launchers, eject launchers, racks, and pylons. These external stores are installed and detachable on the aircraft via specific suspension points, also called hardpoints or weapon stations, which are placed on the external body of the aircraft in order to provide the best possible location of the armament equipment, and for the most aerodynamic flight conditions. Because it offers economies of scale, and because of advantages from an operational perspective, most military aircraft perform as multi-role platforms. This means that modern military aircraft are meant to be versatile, and are capable of executing a variety of military missions, including offensive counter air (OCA) and defensive counter air (DCA), an interceptor anti-aircraft (AA) role, close air support (CAS) as well as combat air patrol (CAP), deep strike, electronic warfare (EW), suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD), anti-shipping (AS) and anti-submarine warfare (ASW), aerial refueling, aerial reconnaissance, aerial surveillance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) launch, or any combination of these roles. Each mission requires the assignment of the right weapon pairing for the given role. Weapon pairing simply means the delivery of the right store or a mix of different store loads and types for the mission. The wide variety of different mission types required from modern military aircraft enforces the need of carrying a wide selection of loads and stores. (en)
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- Aircraft Armament Equipment (AAE), also known as Aircraft Armament Systems or Aircraft Ancillary Equipment, encompasses all equipment that is or can be attached either permanently or temporarily to an aircraft, the use of which allows for the carriage and release of airborne stores. AAE includes bomb racks for all practice and tactical, single and multiple weapon design configurations and their aircraft peculiar fairings; pylons and adapter hardware; missile launchers, including their related entities such as power supplies, nitrogen receivers, and aircraft peculiar pylons; adapters, rails, and interface components. (en)
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