During the Vietnam War, the A-3 attack aircraft were modified to KA-3B tankers while some were modified into a multi-mission tanker variant, the EKA-3B, which was a real workhorse for the …

Jul 18, 2020 · Thus in 1967, the Navy began converting thirty-four Skywarrior tankers to the EKA-3B model, which incorporated an ALT-27 jamming system in an under fuselage ‘canoe’ to …

Oct 8, 2024 · Lt. Palcich flew the Douglas EKA-3B Skywarrior. The Douglas A3D Skywarrior was the Navy's first twinjet nuclear bomber. Douglas built 282 Skywarriors, the largest and heaviest …

Dec 31, 2021 · Other Skywarrior variants included the RA-3B reconnaissance plane, the ERA-3B electronic aggressor platform, and the EA-3B electronic intelligence version. As a tanker, the …

Discover the EKA-3 Skywarrior: Navy's largest carrier aircraft, known as 'The Whale'. Served in electronic warfare and as a flying gas station, refueling aircraft mid-flight.

The version of this aircraft to be displayed on SDACM Midway is the EKA-3B. It had the capability to be used in both electronic warfare and in-flight refueling tanker rolls. VAQ-130 Zappers …

The EKA-3B was a Model A-3B aircraft configured for the TACOS (Tanker Aircraft/Countermeasures or Strike) mission. Early in the Second World War, the Navy began …

Aircraft: Douglas EKA-3B Skywarrior; Serial #: 11577; Photo date: 2019-06-13; Uploaded: 2020-06-09

After the Grumman EA-6B Prowler were put into service as an electronic warfare aircraft, many EKA-3B’s were stripped of most of their electronic equipment and they were used only as …

Electronics version of the Skywarrior operated by VAQ-135 Detachment 2 with Carrier Air Wing CVW-17 aboard USS Forrestal.