Lockheed S-3A Viking is
Adopted by the US Navy as a successor to the Grumman S-2 tracker
The world’s first carrier-based jet anti-submarine patrol aircraft.
The S-3A is an APS-116 radar, infrared detector,
Retractable magnetic anomaly detectors, active sonar systems, ECM devices, etc.
It is equipped with the latest anti-submarine search equipment.
In addition, you can equip the fuselage bomb bay with 4 homing torpedoes and depth charges.
Attack weapons such as various bombs, rockets, flares, etc. are possible on the under-wing pylon.
In addition, the upper part of the cockpit is equipped with an extending aerial oil receiving probe.
The main wing and vertical stabilizer can be folded hydraulically.
The actual deployment started in 1975 and has been deployed to 12 squadrons.
Derivatives of the S-3A include the US-3A, which was modified as an aircraft carrier and a liaison between bases.
AGM-84 There is a capacity-enhancing S-3B with added harpoon operational capability.
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