AircraftGeek513
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Does anyone know which USN VAQs got ICAP III birds? I do know that all the USMC VMAQs transitioned to ICAP IIIs around the 2010-2012 timeframe.
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USN EA-6B Squadrons
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As a general rule, the early Growler transition squadrons like 132 and 141 were ICAP II, but ultimately most of them, by the end as the transition to Growler unfolded. My last Prowler squadron (131) was still ICAP II in 2011.
AircraftGeek513
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The very last Prowler squadron (134) was ICAP II.
<--- This Prowler electrician worked on EXCAP aircraft.
Three down, 10 to go.
AircraftGeek513
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Wow! I've seen a cockpit diagram of the early Prowlers and it is very different from later iterations. Everything done by physical knob. No keyboards.
139, 140, and 142 were all ICAP III prior to transition, although 142 went back to ICAP II temporarily after 139’s jets got irradiated and they did a jet swap.
We (140) flew our ICAP IIIs to Cherry Point to hand over to the USMC coming off our last Prowler deployment in 2013.
We (140) flew our ICAP IIIs to Cherry Point to hand over to the USMC coming off our last Prowler deployment in 2013.
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142 got "irradiated" ICAP IIIs from 139 and a couple from 137 in 2011/2012. We were exped ICAP II prior to that. We finished our 2013 deployment on Nimitz with ICAP IIIs.
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"irradiated"?
Fukushima Daiichi
AircraftGeek513
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Well you learn something new every day. Did not know that there were aircraft that got exposed.
We did RADCON on all of them. They were fine.
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Recall that the US military provided some of the initial humanitarian assistance / disaster relief.