Editing Grumman A-6 Intruder (section)

===A-6B===
To provide U.S. Navy squadrons with a [[Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses|defense suppression]] aircraft to attack enemy anti-aircraft defense and SAM systems, a mission dubbed "[[Operation Iron Hand|Iron Hand]]" by the U.S. Navy, 19 A-6As were converted to ''A-6B'' version during 1967 to 1970.<ref name=Jenkins_p33>Jenkins 2002, pp. 33–41.</ref> The A-6B had many of its standard attack systems removed in favor of specialized equipment to detect and track enemy radar sites and to guide [[AGM-45 Shrike]] and [[AGM-78 Standard]] [[anti-radiation missile]]s, with AN/APQ-103 radar replacing earlier AN/APQ-92 used in the A-6A, plus AN/APN-153 navigational radar replacing earlier AN/APN-122, again used in the A-6A.

Between 1968 and 1977, several Intruder squadrons operated A-6Bs alongside their regular A-6As. Five were lost to all causes, and the surviving aircraft were later converted to ''A-6E'' standard in the late 1970s.