Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: US Advanced Tactical Program... Message-ID: <6589@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 16 May 89 03:56:58 GMT References: <6543@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 23 Approved: military@att.att.com From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) In article <6543@cbnews.ATT.COM>, eclam@maytag.waterloo.edu (Edmund C. Lam) writes: > > From: "Edmund C. Lam" > I recently came across a reference concerning a replacement for the > Navy Grummun A-6E called the ATA. This reference suggested that A-6F has > been cancelled in favour the the ATA (A-12) which will be used by Navy, > Marines (replacement for F-4 and A-4) and Air Force (replacement for A-10). > > Can anyone shead any light on this "rumour". Who makes this "A-12" and > what are its capabilities? Does anyone have information about the > ATB(B-1B replacment) and ATF(F-14/F-15/F-16 replacement)? Lockheed made the A-12 "Blackbird" during the early sixties. (Images of pilot having *very* little time to acquire targets on the ground during an attack run.... :} ) What do you bet they change the designation? (Maybe not, though, the "A-12" designation was originally a CIA label.)