Get aboard one of the venerable aircrafts of the US Navy. Designed as an All-Weather attack aircraft, it saw heavy use during the Vietnam war.
The Grumman A-6 Intruder was a twin jet-engine, mid-wing attack aircraft built in the United States by Grumman Aerospace. In service with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps between 1963 and 1997, the Intruder was designed as an all-weather replacement for the piston-engined A-1 Skyraider medium attack aircraft.
The A-6E is the definitive attack version of the Intruder, introduced in 1970, with its first deployment, 9 December 1971, with vastly upgraded navigation and attack systems. The earlier separate search and track (fire control) radars of the A-6A/B/C were replaced by a single Norden AN/APQ-148 multi-mode radar, and the onboard computers with a more sophisticated (and generally more reliable) IC based system, as opposed to the A-6A's DIANE discrete transistor-based technology. A new AN/ASN-92 inertial navigation system was added, along with the CAINS (Carrier Aircraft Intertial Navigation System), for greater navigation accuracy.
Crew: 2 (pilot, bombardier/navigator)
Length: 54 ft 7 in (16.6 m)
Wingspan: 53 ft (16.2 m)
Height: 15 ft 7 in (4.75 m)
Wing area: 529 ft² (49.1 m²)
Empty weight: 25,630 lb (11,630 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 60,626 lb (27,500 kg)
Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney J52-P8B turbojets, 9,300 lbf (41.4 kN) each
Maximum speed: 563 knots (648 mph, 1,040 km/h)
Range: 2,819 nmi (3,245 mi, 5,222 km)
Service ceiling: 40,600 ft (12,400 m)
Rate of climb: 7,620 ft/min (38.7 m/s)
Hardpoints: 5 total: 4× wing and 1× fuselage with 18,000 lb (8,170 kg) load.
Rockets: 4× LAU-10 rocket pods (each with 4× 127 mm Mk 32 Zuni rockets)
Air-to-Ground missiles:
AGM-45 Shrike Anti-radiation missile (ARM); or
AGM-62 Walleye TV-guided Glide bomb; or
AGM-65 Maverick; or
AGM-84 Harpoon; or
AGM-88 HARM; or
Bombs:
Mk 81 250 lb (113 kg) GP bombs
Mk 82 500 lb (241 kg) GP bombs
Mk 83 1,000 lb (454 kg) GP bombs
Mk-84 2,000 lb (907 kg) GP bombs
Mk-117 750 lb (340 kg) GP bombs
Mk-20 Rockeye II cluster bombs
CBU-89 GATOR mine cluster bombs
Mk 77 750 lb (340 kg) incendiary bombs
GBU-10 Paveway II laser-guided bombs
GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs
GBU-16 Paveway II laser-guided bombs
B61 nuclear bomb
B43 nuclear bomb
Norden AN/APQ-156 radar multi-mode radar
AN/ASN-92 inertial navigation system