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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
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Subject: Re: Radioactive stuff on a MiG
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Date: 20 Oct 89 01:42:28 GMT
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From: gwh%typhoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
In article <10331@cbnews.ATT.COM> baldwin@cad.usna.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
:In article <10272@cbnews.ATT.COM> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
:>If you look at a head-on photo of an A-6 Intruder,
:>for example, you'll see a trefoil on its nose.  (At least, some of them
:>are/were marked this way.)
:
:The "Intruders" that you have seen marked this way are actually EA-6B
:Prowlers.  That is why only "some" of the "Intruders" were marked that way.
:The EA-6B of course, looks nearly identical to the A-6[x] from that angle.
:I guess that's one reason they mark it that way.
:
:I don't know whether an EA-6A Intruder has the trefoil or not.  I don't
:think so.  That's getting a little obscure, though . . .
:
:Interestingly enough, the two aircraft (Intruder/Prowler) have similar
:radars in the nose.  They aren't identical, but there's nothing super-
:powerful or mystic about the AN/APQ-129 in the EA-6B's nose.  The extra
:"radiation" hazard, if any, is from the jamming pods that the Prowler
:carries.  And this, of course, is no hazard at all on the ground (unless
:the bird is facing into Hurricane Hugo to power its pods' turbines).

 Those may well have been what he saw, but last time I looked everything with
 an A-6 airframe type (A-6E, not KA-6D, EA-6A,B) had trefoils on the radome.


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George William Herbert  UCB Naval Architecture Dpt. (my god, even on schedule!)
maniac@garnet.berkeley.edu  gwh@ocf.berkeley.edu
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