posted 10-23-2001 12:55 AM               

Thanks.

posted 10-24-2001 08:48 PM          

That looks to me to be what was (I've been out for 10+ years) called an ACMI/RFMDS pod.
Air Combat Manuvering Instruments were used to transmit real-time data to a ground
station or AWACS to display what aircraft were doing during "War-games." The little
pointy bit on the nose was a pitot tube for airspeed, and their were other telemetry
gyros and such to keep a close count of the jets manuvers. All equipped jets would then
be viewable to create a real-time overview of an engagement. Kinda slick, IMHO...