The S-3 Viking was conceived in the 1960s and commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1974. It was pivotal in detecting submarines that could remain submerged for months, a rising threat during Soviet ...

cargo plane or even an attack jet. And many of those roles have not been satisfactorily replaced since. The S-3 Viking was first conceived in 1960s to serve as a next-generation submarine hunter.

With a maximum speed of only five hundred miles per hour—many airliners fly faster—the S-3 ... plane’s nickname of “Hoover,” which you can hear for yourself in the video below. The ...

Stephen Fimple remembers the first time he sat in an S-3 Viking.It was 22 years ago ... both a military career and a love affair with the plane."It's not the sexiest airplane in the inventory ...

EL CAJON, Calif. — A rare S-3B Viking aircraft from NASA considered pivotal to naval aviation history arrived Tuesday in San Diego, where it will be permanently housed at the San Diego Air ...

Fred Bradshaw, a Navy spokesman, said the plane was an S-3 Viking used mostly for submarine hunting. The S-3 Vikings, usually carrier-based, were in production from 1972 to 1978 and have “a good ...

The company is proposing to refurbish and modify retired Lockheed S-3 Viking anti-submarine warfare aircraft — currently in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona — to fill the ...