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The S-3 “War Hoover” Viking could find a Soviet submarine and kill it in minutes — then the peace dividend killed the Viking. Navy...
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The S-3 “War Hoover” Viking could find a Soviet submarine and kill it in minutes — then the peace dividend killed the Viking. Navy...
The S-3 Viking had ten hours of endurance, could make better than 500 mph at 25,000 feet, and carried a four-man crew with sonobuoys...
The Viking's goodbye took years. The fleet retired it in January 2009 in Jacksonville, but the VX-30 Bloodhounds at Point Mugu kept three flying...
Lockheed built 188 S-3 Vikings for one job: finding and killing Soviet submarines from the deck of an aircraft carrier. The Soviet Union collapsed...
Commissioned in November 1961, Enterprise was built with eight Westinghouse A2W pressurized-water reactors arranged in four independent propulsion units, producing roughly 280,000 shaft horsepower...
The only jet ever built to hunt submarines from a carrier deck never dropped a weapon on one. It fought in Iraq instead, passed...
In 1946 USS Franklin D. Roosevelt became the site of the first planned carrier takeoffs and landings by a US jet-powered aircraft, the McDonnell...
The military aircraft boneyard outside Tucson, officially the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, covers 2,600 acres and normally holds about 3,200 aircraft, 6,100...
Summary and Key Points: The S-3 Viking was a capable Cold War-era carrier-based submarine hunter, but it was ultimately retired because its survivability and...
Key Points and Summary – Lockheed’s S-3 Viking arrived as the Navy’s submarine hunter, built to replace the S-2 Tracker and stalk Soviet boats...