As far as the "missiles" are concerned, there obviously are no missiles being employed in this picture. Assuming the aircraft actually did drop something when the the picture was taken, it was most likely canisters of leaflets. The aircraft is in a dive, and the precision guided munitions being used by the Israeli Air Force are generally dropped from medium altitude in level flight. Fighter aircraft use a diving delivery primarily to put non-precision weapons on target, or to employ the canisters used to distribute leaflets.
Regardless, this idiot photographer has faked far more obvious pictures than this, and should be bludgeoned with his obvious forgeries before people start gnat's assing the less obvious ones. My opinion only of course.
Smoke trails would be at the whim of the wind and it's heat not smoke that a missile homes in on.
Yes it is. The flares are at bottom, just flares. It's the spectrum they emit that is sophisticated. The smokes trails are more a function of the backwash from the jet and of the winds aloft. The winds vary by altitude (The jet is diving) and time. The backwash is turbulent flow, with alot of randomness. No way three flares would have the same kinks, with the same spacing, in their smoke trails.
I think the "bombs" are all fake, given the clarity of the jet and the smoke trails, the bombs should be more distinct and bomb looking. I've seen bombs dropped by F-105s, viewed from a similar aspect angle. The aircraft looked smaller if anything(and it's a bigger bird than the F-16) but you could see the individual bombs easilly, and they looked like bombs, not smudges.
So what do you think those three objects in front of the flare trails might be? Canisters of leaflets, or is that some part of the flare itself?
I wouldn't have ever thought this pic was faked, to be honest, it looks like pictures I've seen of flare drops in the past. Somebody's got really sharp eyes to catch this.
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