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There are literally hundreds of different weapons that can be fitted to fighting aircraft. The RAF and U.K army use the following on a typical multirole sortie Eurofighter Typhoon (jet fighter)- 2x Paveway guided bombs 4x Sparrow air to air guided "smart" missiles 2x Hellfire missiles (very long range with large damage) And the intergrated cannon firing 50mm tracer rounds at high velocity (capable of tearing apart an armoured tank) Westland Lynx (helicopter) 8x TOW (pronounced "Taw") long range missiles 2x Hellfire missiles AH 64 Apache longbow (attack helicopter) 30x 15cm Rockets (un guided air to ground) 30mm Rail gun ( synchronised with pilots helmet to point wherever the pilot looks) (can be configured to fire tracer and incenditary rounds) 8x Hellfire missiles

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