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Description
| Notes: Trim version of A-6A with beacon receiver system, multisensor displays and removable centerline pod containing diane integrated ELECTRO-OPTICAL sensors. | ||
| Manufacturer: | Grumman | |
| Base model: | A-6 | |
| Designation: | A-6 | |
| Version: | C | |
| Nickname: | Intruder | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Tri-Service | |
| Designation Period: | 1962-Present | |
| Basic role: | Attack | |
| Crew: | Pilot & Bombardier-Navigator | |
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Specifications
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Recent comments by our visitors
| Tara Harl St. Cloud, MN | Keith Curray JR.
I saw your posting on this website-I remember visting the Van Curens, your next door neighbors in VA and military friends of my parents, after your dad was killed. I would like to chat with you about a book I am writing. Do you have time? Thanks Tara Harl 04/22/2008 @ 08:37 [ref: 20674] |
| Jim Rudolph Sugar Land, TX | Readers:
Keith Curry is correct! The A-6C had nothing to do with the EA-6 Prowler. I had the good fortune to serve w/ Keith's father in VA-145 and the bad fortune to be there when the well-loved and respected XO crashed off the bow just after launching from the USS Ranger in the Gulf of Tonkin. The A-6C really was just cobbled together, a true experimental plane - a regular A-6 with a large turret just tacked on its chin. When the huge turret worked, ie rotated (which was all too rare), and humidity didn't interfere with its FLIR (which was frequent), it was a good first step in the right direction of advanced targeting sensors. 08/21/2006 @ 06:39 [ref: 13938] |
| Keith Curry , VA | The DAMNED A6C has little to do with the EA6C . The PROWLER is an ECM bird . The original A6C was an overloaded attack bird of whhich only 9 were made . They took the basic A6 and , in the days before micro electronics , put a ball turret the size of a B-17 belly gunner turret between the engines for the early model laser bomb guidence system . Then they did nothing to beef up the engines or airframes or to help the instruments account for the increased weight and drag ! That bird killed 5 naval aviators including my father CDR Keith R.W.Curry , officially the best A6 pilot at that time , with the BOMBER STREAM TROPHY fo both coasts and a MUSTANGER who commanded VA-145 . Don't praise that piece of shit . Makes you sound like somesleazy admiral whose next star rode on the A6C . He paid . I was aircrew in A3 s at that time . I know . 03/03/2006 @ 20:27 [ref: 12692] |
| Keith Curry , VA | The DAMNED A6C has little to do with the EA6C . The PROWLER is an ECM bird . The original A6C was an overloaded attack bird of whhich only 9 were made . They took the basic A6 and , in the days before micro electronics , put a ball turret the size of a B-17 belly gunner turret between the engines for the early model laser bomb guidence system . Then they did nothing to beef up the engines or airframes or to help the instruments account for the increased weight and drag ! That bird killed 5 naval aviators including my father CDR Keith R.W.Curry , officially the best A6 pilot at that time , with the BOMBER STREAM TROPHY fo both coasts and a MUSTANGER who commanded VA-145 . Don't praise that piece of shit . Makes you sound like somesleazy admiral whose next star rode on the A6C . He paid . 03/03/2006 @ 20:25 [ref: 12691] |
| Robert Gross , GA | I was a Tech Rep for Grumman and deployed on the USS America
in 1970 with the first A6C aircraft. 10/01/2004 @ 11:18 [ref: 8376] |
| mario mamo zurrieq, AB | I can not find photos and drawings of this model 01/08/2003 @ 14:40 [ref: 6245] |
| TONY STUBBLEFIELD , WA | THE NEWEST MODEL OF THE A-6C IS THE EA-6C SUPER PROWLER FOR THE U.S. MARINE CORPS WITH VMAQ-4.HAS A 14 MAN CREW 2 IN THE TAIL VERTICAL WING ,12 IN THE FUESALAGE .98 MADE,STILL TESTING 03/05/2002 @ 19:26 [ref: 4458] |
