Photos Grumman A-6 Intruder & Variants

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EA-6B Prowler

 

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Grumman A-6E Intruder from Attack Squadron 35 (VA-35) Black Panthers, flies past the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), Mediterranean Sea, c1989

 

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Flight deck crewmen service a Grumman KA-6D Intruder from attack squadron VA-115 Eagles aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV-41), 1 November 1981.

 

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A Grumman A-6E Intruder on the USS Midway Nov 1981.

 

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Love the A-6 Intruder, lovely & ugly at the same time!

 

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20 Dec 1996, the last deployment of the A-6 Intruder ended. After the Navy officially retired the A-6, 40 sanitized airframes were sunk off the Florida coast to form "Intruder Reef" AKA "NAS Atlantis" which has become a popular spot for fishermen and scuba divers.

 

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A BQM-74E target drone rests on a weapons loader in front of an Attack Squadron 128 (VA-128) 'Golden Intruders' A-6E Intruder during operational test and evaluation exercises conducted by the Missile Targets Division of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division. 1 Aug 1992

 

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Thanks @blackbleopard20
EA-6B from VAQ-136 "Gauntlets" in 2005

 

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A VA-85 Grumman A-6E Intruder armed with an AGM-78 Standard anti-radiation missile, based on the RIM-66 Standard SM-1 SAM.The AGM-78 was designed in a rush during the Vietnam War to replace the Sparrow-based AGM-45 Shrike. With longer range and a more advanced guided system, the AGM-78 proved far more capable than the Shrike, and was replaced in the late 1980s by the AGM-88 HARM.

 

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Two Grumman A-6A Intruder attack aircraftof attack squadron VA-85 Black Falcons in flight over the South China Sea with their tailhooks extended for recovery aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) in January 1966. VA-85 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11). VA-85 lost eight Intruders (six in combat, two operational losses) during the deployment from 19 October 1965 to 13 June 1966. 151798 was shot down by automatic weapons fire while in a night attack on the Tan Loc Barracks, North Vietnam, on 21 April 1966. Both crew (Cdr. Jack E. Keller, and LCdr. Ellis E. Austin) were killed.