A-6A RWR Date

[+CrazyhorseB34 937]

Can anyone give me a time line as to when A-6A's had RWR's installed during Vietnam. Not talking about A-6B's at all. A's.

[Fubar512 1,350]

The Navy began testing RWRs shortly after the USAF did. I'd imagine that they started retrofitting A-6As sometime between mid-1968 and early 1971.

[+CrazyhorseB34 937]

Thank you very much FUBAR......just exactly what I am looking for!

[Fubar512 1,350]

OK, according to my sources, the first USN contract was awarded to ITEK/ATI in March of 1967, for the AN/APR-25N. This was a "navalized" version of the unit used by the USAF. It was equipped with logic-boards that allowed it to ID Soviet ship-based radars, and well as ground-based and airborne threats. The first aircraft to recieve them were A-4s and new A-7s. There's no mention as to when A-6s and F-4s got them.

Edited February 13, 2011 by Fubar512

[+CrazyhorseB34 937]

Good info. By reading crew accounts, it would seem that those systems were installed in the 68-69 time frame..... Once again thank you and I will keep looking.