Look at those AIM-9's. Assuming some idiot with a paint can DIDN'T decide to seriously f
uck with groundcrew,
(and why on earth would anyone in PAF tolerate that sort of criminal backwardness?) those Sidewinders still
have HE warheads (yellow, see?), but no rocket motor (no brown), and no seeker (no pink).
Either those are also drill, meaning they actually serve a purpose training groundcrew on handling, and aircrew
on flight behavior with heaters strapped on... or they're simply eye-candy. Either way, they strike one precisely
as expired Bravo stock from 1963-1967 (cue CCR's Fortunate Son...) with the solid propellant safely-removed.
If it was up to me, those would get a band of Deep Saxe Blue 113 as well... I mean, what other use? If it's just
for eye candy, then I understand the no-blue... hint, hint.
On the other hand...
those drill Mavericks would have been acquired as-is: configured
and marked as for training purposes. PAF
either uses them for training or as eye-candy only: if the former, then we may see live AGM-65G in PAF's future...
but it's as-easily a case of ONLY the latter. Drill munitions are sometimes included with the "training package" that
is itself OFTEN bundled with purchases of combat aircraft: andun na e, so gamitin na pang-porma man lang, even
if there is absolutely ZERO plan to acquire live Mavericks in PAF's future.
That sexy inboard GPB iron, however, is definitely marked live HE (yellow, albeit maybe not Golden Yellow 356).
EDIT: Creedence didn't release 'Fortunate Son' until '69 pala, same year Eddie Peregrina's 'Mardy' came out...
so maybe 'Ring of Fire' is more appropriate.
