
count_to_10 wrote:The picture shows exactly what I meant -- the bays are under the curve of the fuselage, not in the narrow angled portion of the chines. As to the missile type -- no designation came with the model, and I didn't know of any missile that had the same form as the Phoenix.
I recommend you look back a few posts to the drawings spudman and I posted. You'll note the location of the bays from which weapons would be deployed. These are the same bays where some of the SR-71's reconaissance modules were located, and the last time I saw those, there were four of them, two on each side, not one off-center. I am not all that sure where you are differentiating fuselage and chines. Chines are aerodynamic shapes around the fuselage and have space inside, unlike strakes (Super Hornet has very prominent ones of those), although they do serve similar purposes.
Regarding ths missle itself, I'm also attaching a picture of the AIM-47 and AIM-54, which you can also find in this very topic at ATFS Crash's post of Dec. 15, 2007. Regarding missle(s) having the same form as Phoenix, both came from the Falcon family, and I'm also including a drawing of those (GAR-9 is the AIM-47, AGM-76 was a proposed strike version of it). AIM-54 is "Son of AIM-47".