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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...
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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...
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...
The U.S. Navy retired its S-3 Viking fleet from active-duty service in 2016. However, NASA acquired one of these planes back in 2004