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| Keywords: AD-3E AD-3S VX-1 NAN7-70.jpg A Douglas AD-3E BuNo 122906 and an AD-3S Skyraider of U S Navy experimental squadron VX-1 in flight about 1950 Two AD-3Ws BuNos 122906 and 122907 and two AD-3Ns BuNos 122901 and 122911 were modified as AD-3E search and AD-3S attack aircraft in an experimental program to demonstrate the feasibility of hunter/killer antisubmarine teams Under this strategy the AD-3E and AD-3S would operate in pairs with the AD-3E hunting for submarines and the AD-3S destroying the submarine once it was found like the Grumman AF-2W and AF-2S Guardian Later one AD-3S was fitted with an AN/APS-31 radar underneath the port wing to see if the hunter/killer role could be combined in one aircraft A tentative proposal for a combined hunter/killer antisubmarine aircraft was issued By Douglas in August of 1950 but the U S Navy requested instead that the first batch of AD-4Ws be given the ability to perform the E submarine hunting mission and the AD-4Ns be modified to perform the S submarine killing mission Eventually all AD-4Ws and AD-4Ns were so modified before delivery or were retrofitted in the field However the first aircraft to incorporate both roles was the Grumman S2F S-2 Tracker The AD was never used in the anti-submarine role U S Navy Naval Aviation News July 1970 http //www history navy mil/nan/backissues/1970s/1970/jul70 pdf 1950 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy AD-3 Skyraider Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 United States Navy | ||||
