Hey guys !! Have any of you heared any thing about an A-6 Intruder coming out in 1/32nd scale ??? It seems like I heared that some where. Can anyone confirm??? Thanks!![:)]
It was an earlier topic in this forum. It had pics on the model being made for the molds Trumpeter is making.
WOW!!! Thats GREAT NEWS[:D]!!! I wonder if they will make a 1/32 EA-6B Prowler too??? One can dream. Thanks for the info!![bow]
The forum is below, but it looks like the links with the pics are gone.[xx(]
If they’re planning an Intruder, I’m pretty sure a Prowler isn’t far off.
I wanted to see those intruder pix but Yes! they’re dead. That sucks!!![banghead]
What´s the difference between a Prowler and a Intruder? Is only one of them labeled EA-6B?
Thanks /Johan
Fuselage was lengthened for the Prowler I believe, to accomidate the 2 extra stations in the cockpit.
The Intruder was the attack version of the A-6 while the Prowler was the electronic warfare bird for the fleet. I’m probably mistaken, but there are a few of the Prowlers still flying where all of the Intruders are either scrap or sitting in the boneyard.
I’ve gotten my hands on a 1/48 Intruder that I’m going to build up as an USMC bird, just have to decide what to hang on the pylons…
as long as they dont do what revell did and just lengthen the fueselage and use the A6 wings.
most. inaccurate. kit. ever.
The Navy and Grumman called the EA-6B the Prowler. It was more fondly known in the 70s and 80s as the Four Holer, Station Wagon, Country Squire, and Four Man Band & Gliding Electric Light Show. I don’t know what the kids are calling it now. In addition to the two extra seats, it had a big pod on the top of the vertical fin and other differences from the A-6 bomber, er Intruder, too numerous to mention. Its mission was Electronic Reconnaisance and Countermeasures - communications and radar jamming.
I’ve heard the EA-6B called a “4 Seater”.
And also “QUEER”![:D]
LOL they called it prowler because Wild Weasel was already taken
Hey Lemon J, quite a few of the EA-6B are still flying, some with Air Force exchange crews. Also, some A-6s were cleaned up of all the toxic materials it had (hyd fluid, oil, jet fuel), & dumped into the ocean to form artificial reefs. Sd sight to see them getting pushed over the side like that.
Mattp has a point. Monogram really didn’t make the changes need to get an accurate EA-6B from its A-6 kit, & not just the wings are inaccurate. I’ve spent $35 for the Meteor correction set & $27 on the Black Box resin pit. Some day I will get to using it.
Chris Ishmael
Not sure how the name Prowler really came about but it does tie in with Intruder; not to mention some logos for the Prowlers have a panther or cougar, keeping in the Grumman tradition of naming their aircraft after cats. They do prowl, have a bite (HARMs), and roar with those J52s. [:D]
The A-6 Intruder has a two man crew, pilot in the left seat and Bomb Nav in the right seat. It entered service in the early 1960s and was involved in the early bombing raids in North Viet Nam after the so called “Gulf of Tonkin Incident”. Commander Jeramia Denton and Commander James Stockdale were both flying Intruders on separate bombing missions when one or more of their own bombs detonated immediately after release and literally blew them out of the sky. They spent the next 6 or 7 years as guests at the Hanoi Hilton. Cmdr Stockdale received the Medal of Honor for his acts of courage and resistance to the North Vietnamese guards and torturers. Commander Denton should have for the same reasons.
Anyway, that is a little off topic. The A-6 Intruder was considered an "all weather, day/night bomber and was darn good at it because of the electronics on board. It served through out the Viet Nam War and up through the 1991 Gulf War I. They were all retired soon after that.
The EA-6A was a modified Intruder that had a bunch of anti radar and comm jamming equipment on it. It still had a two man crew and was the same air frame. The powers that be decided they needed a better version, so they enlarged the whole airframe, added two more EWOs, a bunch more internal electronics and 3 to 5 large jamming pods on centerline and wing pylons. This plane was called the EA-6B. It is in the process of being phased out of service, basically because they are simply worn out and it is not feasible or safe to continue flying them much longer.
It looks like Boeing is going to be building the replacement for the EA-6B. It is the basic F/A-18F two seat Super Hornet with updated Prowler electronics, most of which will be carried in the same external pods from the Prowler.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
that and “Wild Weasel Ball” is too much talking to be doing on the ball …
There are about 90 or so Prowlers still around, give or take. They’re not actually being phased out YET, because nothing is ready to take its place. When the EA-18 reaches IOC, then they will start phasing out the Prowler.