Originally designed by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Navy in the 1960s for anti-submarine warfare, the S-3 Viking evolved to support various missions, including carrying advanced missiles and ...

Currently, there are three outright contenders for the job, the V-22 Osprey, an updated version of C-2, and yep, the S-3 Viking. The Navy is no stranger to the V-22, as NAVAIR also runs the Marine ...

The last two U.S. Navy S-3 Vikings have performed the final Navy flight. After more than 40 years of service the last pair of S-3B Vikings took off for the last time from the runway at Naval Base ...

D) all of the above. 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.

The S-3 Viking was first conceived in 1960s to serve as a next-generation submarine hunter. In the event of a war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the U.S. Navy’s most important mission would ...

Yesterday was a sad day for U.S. naval aviation. Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Thirty (VX-30), nicknamed the "Bloodhounds," sent their last S-3B, Bloodhound 702, to NASA. This marks the end of ...

The Lockheed S-3 Viking was the U.S. Navy’s silent predator, tracking enemy submarines with surgical precision from high above. Armed with sonar, surveillance tech, and strike capability ...

The US Navy retired one of its main anti-submarine ... For much of that period, the fixed-wing option was the S-3 Viking. Introduced in 1974, the turbofan S-3 was developed with Soviet submarines ...

To refurbish the S-3, Lockheed would completely disassemble the Viking airframe ... we can capitalize on that previous investment the Navy has made,” Cramer said. An artist’s concept of ...

To fly a mission, one S-3 Viking would be crewed by three Navy fliers: A pilot and two naval flight officers who would operate the acoustic and non-acoustic sensor arrays, individually.

FRCSE S-3 Viking Planner and Estimator Don Lockwood ... Painters will also modify the Fly Navy motto beneath the Hornets used by the Blue Angels to commemorate the centennial of Naval Aviation.