Basic Armament Control Circuitry

Introduction

The basic armament control circuitry is used to send release signals to the pylons to release rockets, bombs and dispenser. The basic armament system circuitry is used when the Aircraft Weapons Release System is off.

Controls

There are no controls associated with the basic armament control circuitry other than the Aircraft Weapons Release System - Quantity Selector Switch which enables or disables the Aircraft Weapons Release System and therefore the basic armament control circuitry.

Operation

The basic armament control circuitry can receive bomb pulses from either the manual delivery mode or Low Altitude Bombing System release cue. When a bomb pulse is received like the Aircraft Weapons Release System it is up to the system to forward the pulses to the correct pylons to drop bombs or fire rockets.

The operation is simple all stations which have their respective Station Release Selection Switch armed will receive the forwarded bomb pulse. Any stations which instead have jettison selected will instead convert that bomb pulse to a jettison signal jettisoning the ordiance from the pylon (if it can be jettisoned).