Looks like an aircraft drop tank. If so, it's inert and harmless except for whatever creepy-crawlies might have taken up residence inside. It doesn't look like any of the common NATO or Soviet free-fall aerial bombs, on account of the "fins" being so small.
Edit: It's a 490-liter drop tank used on the MiG-21.
It's an external fuel tank carried under the wing. Sometimes they carry them empty on fighter jets and the pilots put their luggage in them because there's no other storage area. They do this when going TDY to another base. Great for golf club storage.
utes_utes on August 9th, 2020 at 15:21 UTC »
Looks like an aircraft drop tank. If so, it's inert and harmless except for whatever creepy-crawlies might have taken up residence inside. It doesn't look like any of the common NATO or Soviet free-fall aerial bombs, on account of the "fins" being so small.
Edit: It's a 490-liter drop tank used on the MiG-21.
ms-sucks on August 9th, 2020 at 19:03 UTC »
It's an external fuel tank carried under the wing. Sometimes they carry them empty on fighter jets and the pilots put their luggage in them because there's no other storage area. They do this when going TDY to another base. Great for golf club storage.
TheMcDeal on August 9th, 2020 at 19:06 UTC »
Yes, it's a MiG drop tank. There was one of these embedded in the front "yard" of our barracks in Al Asad, Iraq many years ago.