But did they ever carry 6 Shrikes "downtown"???
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RADAR LOVE: The EA-6A saga +split thread+
- Thread starter Old R.O.
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Sincerely doubt it. There were so few jammers at the time and many more ARM shooters it would be better to have them jam and give them a single silver bullet ARM for self defense or for a target they picked up on their more advanced ESM. The jamming and ARM mission profiles were also considerably different with Shrike than they are with HARM where it's pretty easy to do both.
Just to be more clear of what was said a few posts back: The pods don't "find" things. The other onboard systems do. The pods are jammers, and jammers only. As to carrying 6 ARM missiles? I have no idea.
Right ... right .... right .... a poor choice of words on my part. We could "find" an emitter w/ our basic Attack-bird RAW gear. These "Queer" guys sure throw a hissy fit when we Attack guys don't cross all our ECM "T's" and dot our "I's".
And as Pugs pointed out -- Shrike was difficult --- a successful Shrike attack was a thing of beauty -- and much luck. Difficult to deliver and do it right. Shrike sucked. Standard Arm -- much mo' bettah. HARM?? What the hell is that ... ??? :icon_wink
Che Guevara flew attack‽ Cut me some slack jack!
No silly boy -- we would never let "Che" fly in our squadron. And that's a fact, jack.
Charles Manson, however .... now that's quite possibly a different story.
Yep. It's been documented on AW several times . . .
They and/or their clones populated most Attack 'Rons in the ol' days.
*sigh* ... now that's my idea of a kinder, gentler Navy, etc. ...
"No Slack in Attack"
I thought the EA-6A had three stations/wing like the (oh, dear G-d, if only!) A-6F..?
Or, at least, it was plumbed for three?
Or, at least, it was plumbed for three?