Questions about a real-life C-101CC photo

The C-101 is a fantastic module and I've been flying it a lot lately. This has prompted me to do some extra reading and research, in order to learn more about it. As a result, I came across this web-page/photograph:

Ref:

Ref: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/CASA-C-101CC-Aviojet/2796405

I have some questions:

1. From which country is this example? I can't see any insignia.

2. At the top of the vertical stabiliser (in DCS), there is a small horizontal disk. But not on the aircraft in the photo. What is that disk supposed to do?

3. What is that cluster of seven(?) weapons on the second pylon of the starboard wing?

4. What is the weapon on the inner-most pylon on the same wing?

Any ideas? Thanks!

I'm no C-101 expert so this is just a guess:

1) This picture was taken in Paris in 1985, two years after the CC's first flight, at what looks to be an air show. It's quite possible that at this time the aircraft was being marketed to various customers, and this particular one was owned by Casa rather than any one air force.

2) Dunno

3) Some type of unguided rockets

4) Also a launcher for unguided rockets

I would say it's a Spanish one. You can barely see the red-yellow-red circle towards the exhaust nozzle. Here from another perspective: http://www.airliners.net/photo/CASA/CASA-C-101CC-Aviojet/2396257/L?qsp=eJwtjEEKAjEQBP8yZwWD4GFvmgfowQ8Mk0YXVxNmBjQs%2B3eT1Vt1NdRMkl%2BOj19rAQ1kYJU7baiw8tNomOmB%2Bs6aGlPchl2Isd2W1U%2B1qcSOowiKI/39WRO0XzBZS7deDh2hl9/aH9pMo5WJ1wqcx4mW5Qtvti5n

I would say it's a Spanish one. You can barely see the red-yellow-red circle towards the exhaust nozzle. Here from another perspective:...

That's a different airframe with different reg, serial, etc. and taken a year later (1986) in Spain.

This is one source of the previous photo

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/CASA-C-101CC-Aviojet/2796405

Reg.: EC-DVQ

MSN: 107

Code: S-107 / 56

It was snapped a couple of days later at Paris by Don Hewins and clearly shows it's Spanish roundel.

https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1325200

A few more photos of EC-DVQ: https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/EC-DVQ

It seems it was a Civilian registered Aviojet preserved at San Javier AFB in 2015.

Thanks for the replies!

I would say it's a Spanish one. You can barely see the red-yellow-red circle towards the exhaust nozzle. Here from another perspective: http://www.airliners.net/photo/CASA/CASA-C-101CC-Aviojet/2396257/L?qsp=eJwtjEEKAjEQBP8yZwWD4GFvmgfowQ8Mk0YXVxNmBjQs%2B3eT1Vt1NdRMkl%2BOj19rAQ1kYJU7baiw8tNomOmB%2Bs6aGlPchl2Isd2W1U%2B1qcSOowiKI/39WRO0XzBZS7deDh2hl9/aH9pMo5WJ1wqcx4mW5Qtvti5n

Are you sure that this is the same aeroplane? The one in that photo looks like the aircraft on page 13 of the DCS C-101 manual, which lists it as a C-101DD. Apart from the missing pylons, the top of the tail-fin is different. I guess there could have been a modification between photos, of course. And the weapon signs look identical!

I do like @TLTeo's theory that it is a CASA model, being used to promote sales.

So, maybe the caption of the photo is incorrect (for both!) and these are both C-101DD variants?

However, I definitely agree with you that the photo I posted is Spanish. As you point out, that yellow-red roundel is just barely visible. I hadn't seen it on first inspection.

EDIT: @Ramsay posted while I was typing up this. Yes... that's nailed it. The matching registration and markings, especially. Good to see it from another perspective. Any clues on the weapons, though?

I can only barely see the name in the placard for the inner rocket, is it UI 100 or something like that what it states? It may well be some French or Spanish locally made version of a known weapon, just like the BR250 seen, a local Mk82.

S!

I can only barely see the name in the placard for the inner rocket, is it UI 100 or something like that what it states? It may well be some French or Spanish locally made version of a known weapon, just like the BR250 seen, a local Mk82.

The rocket pod looks like a Thomson-Brandt LR 100-4 launcher.

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9155874

2) I believe the disc is to improve the performance of the ELT aerial, which comes out from the centre of the disc. ELT is the Emergency Locator Transmitter, which is activated when the aircraft crashes, if that was not clear.

The rocket pod looks like a Thomson-Brandt LR 100-4 launcher.

S!