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Operation "ACE Guard", 06/01/1991 - 10/03/1991
F-104G Starfighter
28° Gruppo 3° Stormo, Villafranca AB, Italy - Erhac AB, Turkey
F/RF-104G Starfighter
132° Gruppo 3° Stormo, Villafranca AB, Italy - Erhac AB, Turkey
| Ser. no. | Side no. | Comment | Photos |
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| MM6514 | 3-10 | | Photo 1 |
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| MM6529 | 3-11 | | Photo 1 |
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| MM6558 | 3-02 | | |
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| MM6647 | 3-22 | RF-104G | |
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Note for modellers:
All planes except MM6647 were F-104G version with faired over gun port and carrying Orpheus recce pod. MM6647 was RF-104G with faired over gun port and internally carried KS-125 recce pack with special fairing under the fuselage and also the camera port behind the cocpit on the left side of the fuselage.
These aircraft were equipped with integrated ECM in the fuselage behind the cabin with antenna on top and two AN/ALE-40 chaff/flare containers commonly called "Hams" added at the tail.
One container (port side) containing chaffs had regular square holes and second one (starboard side) containing flares had rectangular holes a little larger than those for chaff. Photo
Due to the very little internal space the avionics box and the AN/ALE-40 regulators were housed under the fixed fairing, behind the pilot - more or less in the same position where in the future the GPS antenna will be installed on the ASA-M specimens.
They carried out over 300 sorties lasting more than 400 flight hours.
Big thanks to Mr. Harry Prins from International F-104 Society
