美国佛罗里达州廷德尔空军基地
Photo by U.S. Air Force/Sara Vidoni | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 | TD/72-1494 (cn 4498)
美国空军第82空中靶机中队(82ATRS)一架 QF-4E 无人靶机在廷德尔空军基地准备起飞,执行"战斗射手"空空武器系统评估计划,将由新泽西州空中国民警卫队第177战斗机联队负责击落。(Maintainers with PAE prepare a QF-4 for takeoff on the drone runway May 12 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. This unmanned QF-4 was used as a full-scale target and shot down by a pilot from the 177th Fighter Wing, a New Jersey Air National Guard unit, who were participating in Combat Archer. Combat Archer is the air-to-air component of the 53rd Wing’s weapons system evaluation program. The 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron operates QF-4, QF-16 and BQM-167 targets to provide manned and unmanned aerial targets support for programs across the Department of Defense. The QF-4 mission for the 82nd ATRS at Tyndall came to an end in May, with the squadron transitioning to QF-16s for all future full-scale target operations.)