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The S-3 Viking: The Submarine Hunter Russia Feared (That Retired Way Too Early)
With a maximum speed of only five hundred miles per hour—many airliners fly faster—the S-3 Viking wasn’t about to be the subject of any movies starring Tom Cruise. However, the long-legged Jets proved extremely useful in a very wide variety of roles, whether as an electronic spy, submarine hunter, aerial tanker, cargo plane or even an attack jet. And many of those roles have not been satisfactorily replaced since. (nationalinterest.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
All modern aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics.
Just another result of Oblowhole's sequestration.
WTH are you yammering on about...the retirement was decided before Obama even took office.
Alternative facts R Us
The F-18 version doesn't do the job?
(I really don't know...haven't paid much attention to this topic.)
(I really don't know...haven't paid much attention to this topic.)
For a large part of it, no. There's several other aircraft doing the job, but with pros and cons. The SH-60 helicopters, short-range. The retiring P-3 and the new P-8, but neither is carrier-based. And the super hornets have the refueling buddy duty, but don't hold quite the tank-load. And the C-2 Greyhound is still doing COD, but won't last much longer, and the Navy chose the V-22 to takes it's place with a short range and higher operating cost. Most of the decision making is non-sense. Bernie's first comment up above, nails it.