EA-6B Prowler Carrier Flight OPS with the Cougars

[grayboy6]

this is my most fav video on youtube 100%

[fightingfalcon777]

Aren't they upgrading a lot of Prowlers with the EA-6C modification as well?

[vanrobin333]

this is the best aviation vid on youtube,Love the ea6b

[theprez98]

At 3:06, four Prowlers in the air at once is a truly impressive feat. :-)

[BerkeleyGang]

EA-18G has half the fatigue life of the EA-6B Prowler. Many suspect the first EA-18G will be retired before the last EA-6B. USMC not going to replace Prowlers with Growlers. They will continue the Prowler traditioin.

[vanrobin333]

this is a great vid long live the ea6b prowler vaq139 cougars r the shit!

[Autovomatic]

Great video. Great editing. Well done. You sir capture this perfectly. The song fits perfectly. From the mission, to the aircraft and ending of the era. Prefect!

[grayboy6]

love this video and love this aircraft. sad that they are changing them out for more F-18 variants. one question tho, what does Master Rad stand for?

[danimal139]

@grayboy6 Master Rad is short for Master Radiate. It is like the Master Arm switch for jamming.

[grayboy6]

@danimal139 i see thought it might have something to do with that but wasn't 100. 

[howie98277]

They may be old birds, but man do I miss working on them!

[danimal139]

They are just getting too old. More and more maintenance is required for each flight hour.

[GuMpAkC]

Love this plane, my dad flew A-6's and he loved the EA6. Why would they replace this awesome machine anyways? Cost?

[blues03]

Is that a missile top spinning at 3:38? 

[danimal139]

@blues03 No. That is one of the jamming pods.

[sticky24scout]

Great vid Ihor. Sh*t hot fly-by! Was the 4-ship video from the homecoming?

[danimal139]

@sticky24scout It was from the homecoming of the 2008 cruise.

[toddi1971]

thank you for the video. i always liked this plane.

[Cougar139tweak]

Only REAL tweaks can handle these babys...miss em but glad I don't have to endure Night check working ALQ-99 gripes any more!!!!!

Go cougars, and thanks for your hard work gentleman (both on the video and anyone serving in VAQ 139)

Scott "Tex" Allred 1997-2001

[tootiekorps]

mstr rad is for master radical?

[tootiekorps]

for what use are the badass miniature propellers? nice jet.

[rfd967]

hey danimal139, you wouldnt happen to remember "simo" would ya?

[danimal139]

@rfd967 no sorry I don't know him.

[womo1975]

Have to get this off my chest. I frickin hate those planes! I left VAQ-139 in 2006 so I'm assuming those are the same planes I worked with and if so I'm glad I only get to see them on youtube and not in real life, yes!!!! Sure if you are an officer it's great, but as a line rat you deal with the mindless hours of babysitting these tin cans, and it's a miserable job which is greatly magnified on cruise.

[ZTAussie89]

Wow, best Cougars vid i have seen. my dad was a coug around the early 90's Craig "Scrappy" Tyson. can't believe that the prowlers are still flyin after all this time. love it!!!

[Aim2Maim0763]

Awesome video! Very moto. Nice work gentlemen.

[danimal139]

Thank you.

[jvorus]

This is absolutely awesome. The best 5 minutes in a long time. What deployment was this? To the Gulf?

[danimal139]

We deployed to the Gulf of Oman to support Operation Enduring Freedom.(Afghanistan)

[cessnaflyer2014]

This is what I wanna do for sure. By the way, is this your actual video or did you just find it over the internet?

Cheers,

CJ

[danimal139]

I made the video. My buddy filmed most of the shots from inside the cockpit. I filmed most of the shots out of the cockpit. Most of it was filmed over the summer on the squadron's latest deployment.