Posted this in the Community Hall General Discussion, but maybe it's better off here:

Hey guys,

I'm working on some A-6 loadout updates for SF2. The loadouts would cover A-6A's and A-6E's from the early 60's to the early 80's. One of the first things I did was set the inner weapon station to "RackLimitOutsideOnly=True" so that only the bottom and outside attachment points of MER's on that station would be used. This was a fairly straight forward change, and it was easy to find evidence (pictures, stories, etc...) on the ever powerful and all knowing internet to support that change.

One thing I have a question about is MK20 Rockeye loadouts. The loadout changes I'm making aren't necessarily supposed to be historically accurate for any one conflict that the A-6 served in (Vietnam, ODS, etc...). These loadouts are for the fictional SF2 world where the A-6 may be fly CAS missions against large formations of soviet tanks storming their way across Europe. In this scenario, the most desirable loadout would be four MK20's on MER's on each inner station and full MER's (6 MK20's each) on the outer stations (20 x MK20's!). The game allows me to do this, but was this feasible or ever done during real life operations? I found one image of an A-6 loaded out in this way, but there was no way to know when/where it was from and what the circumstances were. The other option would be more of a "Vietnam" style loadout with MK20's on the inner stations and MK82's or Snakeyes on the outer MER's. I don't think MK82's would be the weapon of choice against tanks, though. ODS is probably the most relevant example to pull information from here, but I just couldn't find much.

Second question is did A-6's ever use TER's? I've never seen an image or description of an A-6 using a TER. I have seen images of them using and MER with only 3 weapons loaded in a staggered manner, which leads me to believe they didn't use TER's for some reason.

Also, how often did the TRAM Intruders use or carry LGB's? Even though the capability was added by the early 80's, I can't seem to find many examples of them actually carrying or using LGB's up through ODS.

Thanks!

Also, did A-6's carry CBU-24's? I see lots of references to them using Rockeyes from late Vietnam and on, but never CBU-24's (which I assume would have been used earlier in Vietnam (if used at all) before the Rockeye's were around).

malibu,

You know it's sad when I try to research the issue via Google, and regardless of which keywords I use, the most applicable hit points back to this thread.

Ha! I know exactly what you're talking about. I can't tell you how many times I've researched A-6 or A-1 loadouts just to be pointed back to my own threads at combatace!

In case anyone ever digs this up, Crusader at CA gave me some great info:



I also found this: http://www.dstorm.eu/pages/loadout/a-6e.html





I also found this, which was "encouraging":