+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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