F-105 Thunderchief one man Airforce

A test pilot lines up with the Air Force’s newest supersonic jet, the Republic F-105, and an assortment of the armament said to give the one man fighter-bomber as much destructive power as an entire big bomber formation of World War II.

External stores displayed are (foreground) 2.75 in. rockets; Vulcan cannon (directly behind pilot) which can fire 6,000 rounds per minute of 20mm ammunition shown on either side.

Boxes directly behind contain electronic equipment. Left side (L-R): first row: rocket launcher; air-to-air missiles with launcher; second row: fire bomb; chaff dispenser; 450 gallon wing fuel tank; "buddy" refueling tank; third row: fire bomb; two 750 pound bombs; 1000 pound bomb; bomb-carrying pylons; (extreme top left) flare dispenser.

Right side next to plane (top to bottom) nuclear weapon bombing trainer; secret nuclear weapons; next vertical row: practice bombs; bomb bay fuel tank.

(Note: all other items, including the pylons behind the practice bombs, are duplicates.) The F-105 carries nuclear wepons externally of internally. the "half shell" object to the left of the nose is the center fuselage nuclear bomb-carrying pylon

Keywords: Republic,F-105,USAF,supersonic,jet,rockets,cannon,vulcan,missiles,bomb,nuclear