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North American A-5A/RA-5C Vigilante (Naval Fighters)
North American A5A/RA5C Vigilante - Naval Fighters Author:Steve Ginter This is aircraft was to replace the AJ-1/2 and the A3D as a nuclear attack bomber. This twin engine bomber carried the Linear Bomb (nuclear weapon) was carried between the two J78-GE-8. It was also used as a tanker, a Photo Recon and ECM. — This was the second heaviest aircraft excepted by the Navy the first being the A-3. The first prototype fle... more »w August 31, 1958 and deliveries started in 1960 to VAH-7.
The new USS Enterprise was the first ship to deploy the A-5.« less