Guess the plane..........

[Niner]

Here is a reverse of the photo thing. Find a photo that matches this discription and tell me what the hell xxxx is.

.......The world's first all-weather attack aircraft, the aircraft provided the capability to launch low-level strikes against targets at extended ranges without regard to darkness or weather conditions. From the beginning xxxx featured Digital Integrated Attack Navigation Equipment (DIANE), which provided an electronic display of targets and geographical features even in low visibility conditions. Introduced on the xxxx version of the aircraft, the Target Recognition Attack Multisensors (TRAM) system combined Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR)/laser sensors with an onboard computer. Located in a ball turret beneath the nose of the aircraft, TRAM enabled a higher degree of bombing accuracy by locating targets and ascertaining their ranges and allowed the A-6 crew to detect ground undulations as small as a plowed field.

Despite initial difficulties in Vietnam, including premature detonation of bombs, the xxxx proved itself in the murky weather conditions over Southeast Asia, oftentimes carrying out single-plane or two-plane nocturnal raids with devastating accuracy that produced disproportionate results, This was dramatically illustrated when two xxxx made a night strike dropping twenty-six 500 lb. bombs against a North Vietnamese power plant. The damage was such that the enemy high command was convinced that B-52 heavy bombers had been at work! The aircraft also represented the aircraft carrier's "big stick" in combat over Lebanon, Libya, and Iraq. During Operation Desert Storm, Navy and Marine Corps xxxx logged more than 4,700 combat sorties, providing close air support, destroying enemy air defenses, attacking Iraqi naval units, and hitting strategic targets. All told, 687 xxxx were delivered to the Navy, the last being retired from front-line service in 1997.

[joseyclosey]

Grumman A6 Intruder?

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[joseyclosey]

Bugger
I had it pegged for a thirties design, but that was as close as I got. Might have had something to do with skipping over the seaplane sections.
Live and learn.

I was looking for everything BUT a German manufacturer!

[Niner]

I should have known that wouldn't be difficult for our experts.

I had a chance to go the Pensacola Navy Museum last week but didn't take it. They got one on display. I found the above discription here at their site.

http://collections.naval.aviation.museu ... FQuery.php

[Niner Delta]

Robert,

It would have been harder if the answer wasn't in the post.

"locating targets and ascertaining their ranges and allowed the A-6 crew to detect ground undulations as small as a plowed field."

Actually, I was thinking F-111 until I got to the end of the first paragraph.

Vern.

[Niner Delta]

"I was looking for everything BUT a German manufacturer!"

Built by Dornier for export only, flown by the Finland, Greece, and Yugoslavia.
I was hoping this one would be hard, took almost 5 days to answer, my best one yet.

Vern.

[Niner]

Darn...I thought I xxx'ed out all the A6 things.

[Woftam]

How about this one. Not accepted by the country that developed it but used by three other main players in WW1.

[DuncaninFrance]

Hanriot HD-1 ?

The Hanriot HD-1 was designed by Pierre Dupont of Société Anonyme des Appareils d'Aviation Hanriot in 1916, despite being a very well designed fighter aircraft it was rejected by the French Air Service but fortunately was brought by both the Belgian and Italian air services resulting in a total of 956 aircraft having been built by the end of WWI.

If it isn't then you get the above for free!!

[Woftam]

Bugger, that was quick. Well done Duncan.
Also used by the USA.