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27 April 1967. U.S. Navy A-6 Intruders and A-4 Skyhawks raided Kep Airfield in North Vietnam, striking MiGs on the ground, degrading the Vietnam People's Air Force capability to intercept U.S. strike packages.

@ron_eisele via X

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1991 Andrews AFB, Post Desert Storm Open House, A-6E Intruder, VMA-503

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I'm really glad to see that you've included the A-6 Intruder in the lineup. It saddens me that one of the most Iconic Navy attackers hasn't been featured in a lot of aviation themed games. Considering that it could carry just about every air-to-ground munition in the Navy's arsenal, you'd expect it to be a bit more popular in those games.

Yeah I’ve been doing a bit of reading on it ever since I saw it at the Naval Aviation museum in Pensacola. It’s a pretty impressive little plane that was capable of pretty much every air to ground mission, can carry a totally stupid amount of bombs, and by the end of its service even supported weapons like the AGM-88 HARM and AGM-84 Harpoon.

I think the main reason it’s not more popular is because subsonic ground pounders just aren’t as sexy as supersonic fighter jets. I’ll admit even I tend to not think too much about jets if they don’t have afterburners but the combination of the MiG-15 and Harrier in DCS have been changing my mind.

4th gen at this point is looking like it sort of becomes a “what’s your favorite plane” choice because so many planes do such a wide variety of things. Don’t get too excited though, there’s still a long way to go before it gets into the game in any real capacity.

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