Vietnam Air War - Intruders

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Vietnam Air War - Intruders

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Grumman A-6A, A-6B, A-6C Intruder 

This is a third-party add-on for the Grumman A-6 Intruder in a few variants as used by the US Navy and US Marines during the Vietnam War. Mod is based on GKABS mod, but it is an entirely separate entity. That should not be mixed with any other A-6 Intruder mod. 
It is designed for and works only in the SF2 series. And will never work in SF1.

This mod offers my personal approach to the Intruders in the Vietnam War. It is not intended to replace or compete with previous packs. I recommend testing it before removing any older mods, as you may prefer one over the other.

Basic modding skills are required to run this mod.  (copy/paste, mod folder structure, etc.) 

A fake pilot is required to run this mod.

Install:
Copy and paste specific folders into their respective destinations.
A fake pilot is required to run this mod.  

All skins are in 3072x3072 format. You can easily resize as needed.  

Decals represent historically correct serial numbers assigned to aircraft during their service for a specific year, unit, etc. But as in many of my packs, this is all constant work in progress and updates of historically correct BuNo and serial numbers are possible.

 

What is unusual (as for the mod made by me) is that it is based mostly on decals. So generally, there is one skin set per aircraft. And all markings are done via decals. 

There is also camouflage paint via decals for VA-65 in 1966 and VA-85 in 1965. You play it, you will find it. 

I have made this mod separately for USN and USMC. So in a single mission, Marines will not start from the aircraft carrier. But, A-6A '69 has dual service in userlist.ini. - This is required for one Marine squadron to appear in the years 1971-72- VMA(AW)-224 was part of the CVW-15 on board USS Coral Sea. 

 

This is a model done by GKABS. We were working on it some time ago; this mod comes with the same models as the original mod, except one. US Navy model marked as '69 has built in AN/AVQ-10 Pave Knife. 

Another big change in the model is the reworked weapon stations. And specific stations - MERs to accommodate various loadout options. Now on the outer wing pylon, you have the option to load two different sets of bombs on the front and aft rows on the MER. 
Weapon stations are made in a specific manner. So, a quick explanation. Station group 1 serves as the main outer wing pylon, but to make things a little more fun there is also station group 2-3 that surpass group -1 - Reason - to load mixed load on MERs. So you can have front row with a different load and aft row with a different. All is quite easy to understand and easy to operate. There is one thing that you have to remember, you should not load  2 pieces of ordnance on those (front and aft) positions - this is a simple walk around the problem so .... on those two stations, the group should be loaded 4 or 6 pieces of ordnance. You play, you will see. Also, I recommend relying on loadout.ini.  loadouts are based on typical loadouts by the USN and USMC during the Vietnam War. Of course, with all game engine limitations. 

Ok, more details. In-game you will have 

A-6A '65 and A-6A '69 for USMC

A-6A '65 and A-6A '69 for USN

A-6B mod 0  and so-called A-6B mod 0-1 - AGM-78 capable aircraft.

A-6B PAT/ARM - final variant for SEAD operations,

A-6C Intruder equipped with a TRIM fuselage pod for FLIR and low-light TV cameras.

Weapons included covers all weapons in loadout.ini. Those are common weapons from Ravenclaw's factory. Located in the WeaponsCommon folder.

It is important to copy all MERs, TERs and AVQ-10 files from the Weapons folder to make this mod work properly. 

You have to download all 3 parts to make this mod work. 

Credits
GKABS model
yakarov79 - some parts of the model, launch rails, Pave Knife, Pilot models, templates, skins, decals, research and some other stuff that might be worth mentioning..but I do not remember at the moment. 
All weapons are made by Ravenclaw. I have included in the mod all weapons that are listed in the loadout.ini. files.
refueling pods made by Nyghtfall and borrowed from his A-4 pack.
 

Have fun.

This mod or any part of it, in this form, should not be used in any campaign, mission pack, or any mod without my permission. While the model is not mine, all things around the model itself is my work. 

 

 

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This is FREEWARE-DONATIONWARE, and it CANNOT be distributed unless permissions are granted by me.
THIS MODEL IS ONLY TO BE DISTRIBUTED AS FREEWARE AND IN NO OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL IT BE USED, EVEN IN PART OF ANYTHING THAT IS PAYWARE.
ALSO, THESE FILES CAN NOT BE HOSTED ON ANY OTHER SITE THAN COMBAT ACE.
See the original readme documentation, if any, for further allowances and restrictions
Any person wishing to make further modifications should contact me first.
Bribes and donations are accepted.

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THIS AIRCRAFT MOD OR ANY PART OF IT MUST NOT BE HOSTED OR
POSTED FOR DOWNLOAD ON ANY OTHER WEBSITE WITHOUT MY EXPRESS
PERMISSION, OR USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN THIRDWIRE FLIGHT
SIMULATORS, AND MUST NOT BE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE BY ITSELF
OR WITH ANY OTHER FILES OR MODS.
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Have fun.
Report bugs. *
Expect the unexpected.
Live long and prosper.

Thanks for all your kind support.

Jarek Hereda

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• Submitter
  yakarov79
• Submitted
  05/07/2026
• Category
  A-6