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What is “Hard points” on military combat aircraft?
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mark
July 3, 2010 at 6:51 pm
hard points are attachment points for weapons or camera equipment.
gary s
July 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm
The mounting rails for missles,fuel tanks and bombs on the front edge of the wing.
strech
July 3, 2010 at 7:50 pm
We called “HARD POINTS” the underwing/fuselage stores, i.e., the mount points underwing/belly to hang munitions on.
Baron_von_Party
July 3, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Those things I always bang my head on when I walk underneath the wings. Harder than HELL points actually……..
Firefox
July 3, 2010 at 9:20 pm
A hardpoint is any part of an airframe designed to carry an external load. Its an interface that allows drag reduction when a particular load ( missiles, bombs, surveillence equipment, countermeasures, gun pods, and drop tanks, or even a parasite aircraft hitching a ride) is optional for regular flights. Additionally it allows more stores/loadout flexibility.
Strictly speaking, even the mountings for engines are hard points too. And the B747 has an additional hardpoint to ferry an extra engine.
fire_inur_eyes
July 3, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Missles and rockets for ground attack are mounted on hard points–under the wings
Charles M
July 3, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Firefox is right. The 747 is known to ferry extra engines etc on the wings hardpoint.