AD Skyraider (Family)

In-Game Vehicles

Rank IV

• AD-2
• AD-4
• AD-4 (France)

Service

Korean War (1950-1953)

World War 2 ended before the AD Skyraider could reach production, but it saw extensive service during the Korean War. The payload and flight time (10 hours) of the AD Skyraider far surpassed the jets of the time, and the first ADs saw action operating from the USS Valley Forge with VA-55 on 3 July 1950. AD Skyraiders executed the only aerial torpedo attack of the war on 1 May 1951, when they attacked the Hwacheon Dam, which was controlled by North Korea at the time. Eight Skyraiders participated in the raid, escorted by twelve F4U Corsairs, and seven torpedoes struck the dam - six of them detonating. The only documented air-to-air kill by an AD Skyraider occurred on 16 June 1953, when a Marine Corps AD-4 piloted by Major George H. Linnemeier and CWO Vernon S. Kramer shot down a Soviet-built Polikarpov Po-2 biplane. The Po-2 was used extensively by North Korean forces in night raids and reconnaissance missions to harass the UN forces. The night fighter versions of the AD Skyraider - the AD-3N and AD-4N Skyraiders - flew night sorties against ground targets, using bombs and flares. These radar-equipped Skyraiders were also used to jam enemy radars whilst operating from carriers and airfields.

Operators

• Cambodia
  • Khmer Air Force (KAF)
• Central African Republic
  • Central African Republic Air Force
• Chad
  • Chadian Air Force
• France
  • Armée de L'air
• Gabon
  • Garde Présidentielle - Presidential Guard
• South Vietnam
  • Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF)
• Thailand
  • Royal Thai Air Force
• Sweden
  • Svensk Flygtjänst AB - Swedair AB
• United Kingdom
  • Royal Navy
    • Fleet Air Arm (FAA)

• United States
  • United States Navy (USN)
  • United States Marine Corps (USMC)
  • United States Air Force (USAF)

• Vietnam
  • Vietnam People's Air Force