Jump to content

A-6E 2019 thread and video


Devil 505

Recommended Posts

Someone said it!!!! Heatblur NEEDS to get William Dafoe to do the voice acting for Jester on this one. Devil 505, feet dry.

 

You're kidding, right? That was hands down my favorite book as a kid. It was also hands down the worst movie rendition of a book I have ever seen. I get artistic license, but this one practically took the book script and burned it. What got me the hardest was the 'trying way too hard over the top Hollywierd macho swaggering toughguy BS, with the foul language at every possible opportunity' cherry on top. Yuck.

 

As for the A-6 itself, I remember watching the carrier wings' strike capacity and range go through the floor in the 1990's. Very unfortunate to be removing aircraft from service without any replacement capability. We're very fortunate that it wasn't needed.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Someone said it!!!! Heatblur NEEDS to get William Dafoe to do the voice acting for Jester on this one. Devil 505, feet dry.

 

I want this more than anything.

Reformers hate him! This one weird trick found by a bush pilot will make gunfighter obsessed old farts angry at your multi-role carrier deck line up!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

"Normally I'm blabby, but I sat on this one...."

 

Kira, while I agree that the book to movie interpretation was a little liberal, and that also it might not be the cinematic great that Top Gun is, Defoe's portrayal of Tiger Cole was incredible, and he really made a nice pair to Johnson's Grafton. I think his voice would go nicely as an AI for the Intruder!!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

As for the A-6 itself, I remember watching the carrier wings' strike capacity and range go through the floor in the 1990's. Very unfortunate to be removing aircraft from service without any replacement capability. We're very fortunate that it wasn't needed.

 

 

Speed and technology replaced payload capacity and durability. It would have been interesting to see where things would have gone if the Navy had carried through with the A-6F Intruder II and A-7F Super Corsair.

F/A-18C; A-10C; F-14B; Mirage 2000C; A-4E; F-16C; Flaming Cliffs 3

Link to comment
Share on other sites

One thing I don't understand is why the last brand new A-6E intruder left the assembly line in 1992, but the Marine Corp retired it in 1993 and the Navy in 1997. It's so baffling and it seems like such a waste of money.

 

I do hope Heatblur make the A-6E as a module and it would be pretty awesome if they made a flyable KA-6D packaged with it as well. Having a flyable tanker in DCS would be a game changer.

 

+1

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The last major update effort for the A-6E was the "System Weapons Improvement Program (SWIP)", which was focused on support of advanced missile armament, including the AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missile, the AGM-84 Harpoon antiship missile and its SLAM cruise missile derivative, and the AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile. Some other improvements were implemented, such as a fire warning and extinguishing system. Not all SWIP machines received the updated wings. A second-phase element of the SWIP program added new avionics, including a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation satellite receiver and a head-up display (HUD)

 

http://www.airvectors.net/ava6.html

 

And you can see the HUD in this pic:

 

Open-Cockpit-March-2017-event.png


Edited by Heimz
Link to comment
Share on other sites

8676492684_737d1b2e5f_b.jpg

f64c1f1ab786ace35260b92c807398ab.jpg

tumblr_nt4ww4An6Z1sq12j9o1_1280.jpg

11155175_10155449437765174_8998544998445817855_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-2.fna&oh=d28b18ed7c440842d5cb80891a387203&oe=5D18221A

10548097_10155449437555174_8303170456759966670_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-1.fna&oh=809c166ed05f98da7f0ded107bd351d7&oe=5D1DD894

11754340_10155884204440174_2410744459639116537_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-1.fna&oh=e113ba3a5b46d8ec374a9ed7610a41c3&oe=5D17013B

12068497_10156135730310174_7766116886119085984_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-1.fna&oh=91175961eb9e31f8ac1bc071822d4c86&oe=5D12B527

12140090_10156135730330174_3888290213416619800_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-2.fna&oh=bca46be907531f2e071db4635c073968&oe=5D0C0659

 

One of the things I love about the Intruder, were some of the weird and wonderful configurations of how bombs were loaded on MERs, when the MERs weren't maxed out.

14711381_10157582824175174_6635841319786982052_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-1.fna&oh=203c407c8de712ac4fc10a5f2c5dfe2b&oe=5D27D750

 

22553024_10159451052540174_3201488426320149168_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-2.fna&oh=ac6dfdd1512899b04a75463666418c1c&oe=5CDF34C7

23674739_10159583026670174_1219241228641364697_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-2.fna&oh=8fb393950514d3cdee7217278757312c&oe=5D211ADC

339415_10150919607365174_502114708_o.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-1.fna&oh=32416c0bac19ae2768b5fa84fbb55d64&oe=5D2698FF

210831_10150961224005174_163463589_o.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-2.fna&oh=10ea12e4cfe6d5c091133962763d970a&oe=5D139ADE


Edited by Blaze1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

You're kidding, right? That was hands down my favorite book as a kid. It was also hands down the worst movie rendition of a book I have ever seen. I get artistic license, but this one practically took the book script and burned it. What got me the hardest was the 'trying way too hard over the top Hollywierd macho swaggering toughguy BS, with the foul language at every possible opportunity' cherry on top. Yuck.

 

As for the A-6 itself, I remember watching the carrier wings' strike capacity and range go through the floor in the 1990's. Very unfortunate to be removing aircraft from service without any replacement capability. We're very fortunate that it wasn't needed.

 

Cole Virgil Cole ;)

 

I'm with you on that about the movie not being quite accurate. The ending was just plain wrong!

 

Did you ever read any of the other "Jake Grafton" books? The one with him as a Tomcat pilot was good :)


Edited by Mongoose556

F14B

AV8B N/A

F-15C

A-10A

Black Shark 2.0

 

NTTR, PG

X55 Rhino

FreeTrackNOIR, .

 

i7 6700k, 16GB, GeForce GTX 970

 

"A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion."

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...