1980’S GRUMMAN A-6E INTRUDER TRAM SYSTEM PROMO FILM “AN EYE IN THE DARKENED SKY“ U.S. NAVY 27914

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This film “An Eye in the Darkened Sky“ presents the Grumman A6-E Intruder; a twinjet all weather attack air craft first produced in 1960 and which had first seen action in the Vietnam War although it’s service continued into the 1990’s. Starting in 1979, Grumman began outfitting the Intruder with TRAM, or the Target Recognition Attack Multi-Sensor system. This was a small, gyroscopically stabilized nose turret containing a FLIR boresighted with a laser spot-tracker/designator and IBM AN/ASQ-155 computer. TRAM allowed highly accurate attacks without using the Intruder’s radar, and also allowed the Intruder to autonomously designate and drop laser-guided bombs. The film begins with the USS John F Kennedy (CVN-67) at sea (:19). A strike group including the A-6E, F-14s and Corsair IIs is to take off for a simulated attack mission at ni