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Little known / experimental aircraft

The Douglas A-3 (A3D) also had no ejection seats. Pilots used to joke that A3D stood for "All 3 Dead". The reserves were still using it as a tanker (KA-3) into the late '80's, and the EA-3B was finally retired in1991. Pic is from CAG20 ACDUTRA at NAS Fallon in the late '80's.
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During the early days of what was then broadly called “electronic warfare” (Vietnam) the Jason Committee came out with a lot of wild ideas. One was the Iroquois Night Fighter and Night Tracker (INFANT) as part of the Igloo White operation to close the Ho Chi Minh Trail that also included USN OP-2E Neptune’s from VO-67. The highly modified UH-1 worked well, using early Starlight night vision systems, but was limited by the fact that Starlight couldn’t see through triple canopy jungle and had radios that couldn’t communicate with special forces on the ground.

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Griz882 said:
During the early days of what was then broadly called “electronic warfare” (Vietnam) the Jason Committee came out with a lot of wild ideas. One was the Iroquois Night Fighter and Night Tracker (INFANT) as part of the Igloo White operation to close the Ho Chi Minh Trail that also included USN OP-2E Neptune’s from VO-67. The highly modified UH-1 worked well, using early Starlight night vision systems, but was limited by the fact that Starlight couldn’t see through triple canopy jungle and had radios that couldn’t communicate with special forces on the ground.
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That reminds me that there are so many things we take C2/3/4-wise for granted nowadays that didn't work well, work together or just plain exist back then.
 
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