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A land-based derivative of the [[United States Navy]]'s [[E-3 Skywarrior]], the [[United States Air Force]] '''EB-66''', like its prececessor, was an [[electronic intelligence]] and [[electronic warfare]] aircraft built on a bomber airframe. Neither the basic B-66 nor A-3 were successful bombers, but had long careers in support missions. <ref>{{citation | A land-based derivative of the [[United States Navy]]'s [[E-3 Skywarrior]], the [[United States Air Force]] '''EB-66''', like its prececessor, was an [[electronic intelligence]] and [[electronic warfare]] aircraft built on a bomber airframe. Neither the basic B-66 nor A-3 were successful bombers, but had long careers in support missions. <ref>{{citation |
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![]() A land-based derivative of the United States Navy's E-3 Skywarrior, the United States Air Force EB-66, like its prececessor, was an electronic intelligence and electronic warfare aircraft built on a bomber airframe. Neither the basic B-66 nor A-3 were successful bombers, but had long careers in support missions. [1] In air operations against North Vietnam, the EB-66C was an electronic intelligence platform capable, over North Vietnam, of identifying FAN SONG ground radars used with the S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile, as well as MiG fighter IFF (identification friend or foe). The EB-66B/E versions were electronic attack versions used to jam enemy electronics with greater power than could the EB-66B and EB-66E aircraft were used primarily for active ECM using high power barrage and tuneable electronic jamming of selected frequencies. With the 1967 advent of the F-105 AN/QRC-160 self-protection jammer on the F-105 fighter bomber used in Operation Rolling Thunder, the EB-66 specialized in "early warning and ground controlled intercept radars. Flights of three aircraft were used and commonly composed of two EB-66Bs and one EB-66C. Up to three of these flights were used to cover a strike mission during target ingress and egress as well as during the actual strike. The EB-66 could not survive within the lethal SAM envelopes at the altitudes required for area jamming;" they flew just outside the strike area.[2] They also escorted B-52 bombers in Operation Linebacker II. The book and movie BaT-21 dealt with the 1972 rescue of a shot-down EB-66 electronic warfare officer, Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hamilton. References
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