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Perhaps he's referring to The Drive article on the F-23's weapons bays? There's speculation in there about some extraordinary claims like this. I may be wrong but that article strikes me as if it's referencing this very thread. In the beginning there were similar extraordinary ideas for weapon load outs as there wasn't clear information on the actual clearances and other constraints. Ironically, there's that patent for the rotary launcher for folding fin missiles that would've allowed for 8 folding fin AMRAAMs in a MWB that is only a bit larger than the design we see in DP231. I think one of the draw backs is the folding fin AMRAAM itself as the USAF was against having two missile types on the flight line. They wanted to ease logistic burden and not have a ATF only variant.

[QUOTE="BDF, post: 568826, member: 2764"] Perhaps he's referring to The Drive article on the F-23's weapons bays? There's speculation in there about some extraordinary claims like this. I may be wrong but that article strikes me as if it's referencing this very thread. In the beginning there were similar extraordinary ideas for weapon load outs as there wasn't clear information on the actual clearances and other constraints. Ironically, there's that patent for the rotary launcher for folding fin missiles that would've allowed for 8 folding fin AMRAAMs in a MWB that is only a bit larger than the design we see in DP231. I think one of the draw backs is the folding fin AMRAAM itself as the USAF was against having two missile types on the flight line. They wanted to ease logistic burden and not have a ATF only variant. [/QUOTE]

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