Talk:North American A-5 Vigilante

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Despite the Vigilante's useful service, it was expensive and complex to operate, and it was phased out after the end of the Vietnam War. Disestablishment of RVAH squadrons began in 1974, with the last Vigilantes completing their final deployment in September 1979.

In correction. While on deployment in 1985 onboard the USS Estocin (FFG-15), during numerious carrier ops (Plane Guard). I watched for 200 - 300 feet away as RA-5C Vigilantes returned from sorties, conducted carrier quals, touch & goes, and Cat shots in the Indian Ocean. This was from approx. Dec 1984 through Feb 1985. 155.104.37.17 09:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

:You may have mistaken them for F-14's. Vigilantes only equiped RVAH squadrons, and if you can provide proof that they existed beyond 1979/1980 then, maybe it wasn't Vigilantes you were looking at. Wikiphyte 06:33, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Deployed means for the entire squadron with all their a/c and personnel aboard ship for a cruise. Just seeing an a/c temporarily aboard a specific ship does not mean meet the definition of a deployment of a a/c squadron. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Navybrook (talk • contribs) 17:57, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

I visited the USS Constellation in 1987. They, at the time, had on board an A5 Vigilante, in use for a reconnaissance role. It was not an F4. I have photographs of it.

Thankyou,

DrenAgem124.178.34.205 16:35, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

I believe we had a squadron of them at NAS Alameda CA. I was there from 80 to 84, and they were in the hanger next to ours. NAS Alameda back then was mostly a TAR base (training air reserve) And I believe they were used for in air refueling, and were assigned to CAG 30. I will do some more research on this, someting tells me a few were in use in the 80's —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.184.169.190 (talk) 23:55, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Never mind that last post, I confused this plane with the KA-3B. When the Naval Air Reserve was reorganized in 1970 Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 208 was established on July 31 at NAS Alameda, California, as part of Carrier Air Wing Twenty.

Equipped with KA-3Bs to support CVWR-20 operations, VAQ-208 also began providing air refueling and pathfinding for Navy and Marine tactical aircraft being ferried to Southeast Asia.

During the 1971 India-Pakistan conflict and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, VAQ-208 jointly with VAQ-308 provided crews and aircraft to support emergency deployments of U.S. naval aircraft.

During the seventies, the squadron also provided tanking platforms for test and development of the Lockheed S-3A Viking and Grumman F-14A Tomcat. On October 1, 1979, in recognition of its primary use as a refueling and pathfinding unit, the squadron was redesignated VAK-208. They were disestablished 30 September, 1989. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.184.169.190 (talk) 00:16, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

The Rapier article says that the A-5 is a development of the F-108. This article has nothing about it... 76.66.194.32 (talk) 13:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

It looks to me that the figure given for the combat radius (marked in the article as 'dubious') is likely the combat range. The combat radius would be approximately half that. Garyvp71 (talk) 21:17, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

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I have initiated a merge proposal for NR-349 to be merge to this article for obvious reasons (notability coverage in this article etc. etc.)--Petebutt (talk) 00:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

• Merge Mztourist (talk) 17:47, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

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