CrazyhorseB34 Posted February 13, 2011 Posted February 13, 2011 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 Posted February 13, 2011 Posted February 13, 2011 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 Posted February 13, 2011 Author Posted February 13, 2011 Thank you very much FUBAR......just exactly what I am looking for!
Fubar512 Posted February 13, 2011 Posted February 13, 2011 (edited) 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 Posted February 13, 2011 Author Posted February 13, 2011 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.
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