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The A-6 Intruder Has a Message for the U.S. Navy

The A-6 Intruder was never pretty, but it was one of the U.S. Navy’s most feared strike aircraft. -Immortalized in Flight of ...
Sixty-five years ago today, on April 19, 1960, the Grumman A-6 Intruder took to the skies for the first time. The aircraft was born out of a 1957 request by the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics for a ...
The United States of America's Defense Department awarded McDonnell Douglas and General Electric a $4.8-billion contract to develop a potential replacement for the U.S. Navy's A-6 Intruder in 1984.