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| Description | A Douglas AD-3E (BuNo 122906) and an AD-3S Skyraider of U.S. Navy experimental squadron VX-1 in flight, about 1950. Two AD-3Ws (BuNos 122906 and 122907) and two AD-3Ns (BuNos 122901 and 122911) were modified as AD-3E (search) and AD-3S (attack) aircraft in an experimental program to demonstrate the feasibility of hunter/killer antisubmarine teams. Under this strategy, the AD-3E and AD-3S would operate in pairs, with the AD-3E hunting for submarines, and the AD-3S destroying the submarine once it was found, like the Grumman AF-2W and AF-2S Guardian. Later, one AD-3S was fitted with an AN/APS-31 radar underneath the port wing, to see if the hunter/killer role could be combined in one aircraft. A tentative proposal for a combined hunter/killer antisubmarine aircraft was issued By Douglas in August of 1950, but the U.S. Navy requested instead that the first batch of AD-4Ws be given the ability to perform the "E" submarine hunting mission and the AD-4Ns be modified to perform the "S" submarine killing mission. Eventually, all AD-4Ws and AD-4Ns were so modified before delivery, or were retrofitted in the field. However, the first aircraft to incorporate both roles was the Grumman S2F (S-2) Tracker. The AD was never used in the anti-submarine role. |
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| Source | U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News July 1970 [1] |
| Author | USN |
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