Grumman S 2 Tracker Wikipedia. The Grumman S 2 Tracker S2. F prior to 1. 96. ASW aircraft to enter service with the United States Navy. FileStorage/ARTICLE/Mir_PK/2016-01/02_16/13182936/Mir_PK_S13_5-530_(5629).jpg' alt='3 Trackers' title='3 Trackers' />SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker Generation 3 by SPOT SPOT3 Orange The Worlds First Satellite Messenger and Tracker spot3 spot3 silver orange gen3 generation3. Sports Tracker is the original sport and fitness application for running, cycling and everyday training. Take your training up a notch with Sports TrackerDesigned and initially built by Grumman, the Tracker was of conventional design  propeller driven with twin radial engines, a high wing that could be folded for storage on aircraft carriers, and tricycle undercarriage. The type was exported to a number of navies around the world. Introduced in 1. 95. Use FlightStats real time flight tracker to track a flight to its destination. Latest Race News. 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Design and developmentedit. Starboard wing root and fold mechanism note wing removedThe Tracker was intended as a replacement for the Grumman AF Guardian, which was the first purpose built aircraft system for ASW, using two airframes for two versions, one with the detection gear, and the other with the weapon systems. The Tracker combined both functions in one aircraft. Grummans design model G 8. Wright Cyclone R 1. Both the two prototypes XS2. F 1 and 1. 5 production aircraft, S2. F 1 were ordered at the same time, on 3. June 1. 95. 0. The first flight was conducted on 4 December 1. VS 2. 6, in February 1. Follow on versions included the WF Tracer and TF Trader, which became the Grumman E 1 Tracer and Grumman C 1 Trader in the tri service designation standardization of 1. The S 2 carried the nickname Stoof S two F throughout its military career and the E 1 Tracer variant with the large overhead radome was colloquially called the stoof with a roof. Grumman produced 1,1. Trackers. At least 9. CS2. F designation were manufactured in Canada under license by de Havilland Canada. U. S. built versions of the Tracker were sold to various nations, including Australia, Japan, Turkey and Taiwan. Sensors and armamentedit. U. S. Navy S 2 Tracker on the port catapult of USS Lexington ready for take off, 2. January 1. 96. 3The Tracker carried an internal torpedo bay capable of carrying two lightweight torpedoes or one nuclear depth charge. There were six underwing hard points for rocket pods and conventional depth charges or up to four additional torpedoes. A ventrally mounted retractable radome for ANAPS 3. Magnetic Anomaly Detector MAD ANASQ 8 mounted on an extendable rear mounted boom were also fitted. Early model Trackers had an Electronic Surveillance Measures ESM pod mounted dorsally just aft of the front seat overhead hatches and were also fitted with a smoke particle detector or sniffer. Later S 2s had the sniffer removed and had the ESM antennae moved to four rounded extensions on the wingtips. A 7. 0 million candlepower searchlight was mounted on the starboard wing. The engine nacelles carried JEZEBEL sonobuoys in the rear 1. S 2. EG. Early Trackers also carried 6. JULIE with the ANAQA 3 and later AQA 4 detection sets, whereas the introduction of active sonobuoys pingers and ANAQA 7 with the S 2. G conversion saw these removed. Smoke dispensers were mounted on the port ventral surface of the nacelles in groups of three each. Operational historyedit. A TS 2. A aircrew training version of the Tracker in 1. The Tracker was eventually superseded in U. S. military service by the Lockheed S 3 Viking the last USN Tracker operational squadron VS 3. S 2. G models was disestablished in 1. The last Navy S 2 was withdrawn from service on 2. August 1. 97. 6. 7 For many years the TS 2. A version of the Tracker was used by U. S. Navy training units, culminating with its use by Training Squadron 2. VT 2. 8 for Student Naval Aviator training in the multi engine pipeline with Training Air Wing FOUR TRAWING 4 at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas. A number of Trackers live on as firefighting aircraft while the design also continued to provide excellent service with the naval forces of other countries for years after the U. S. retired them. For example, the Royal Australian Navy continued to use Trackers as front line ASW assets until the mid 1. ArgentinaeditArgentine S 2. T Turbo Tracker in hangar with wings folded. The Argentine Naval Aviation received seven S 2. A in 1. 96. 2, six S 2. E in 1. 97. 8 and three S 2. G in the 1. 99. 0s. They were used from both aircraft carriers, ARA Independencia and ARA Veinticinco de Mayo and used in the COD US 2. A conversions8, Maritime Patrol and ASW roles. They were extensively used in the 1. Falklands War, first from Veinticinco de Mayo, from where they detected the British Task Force and then from the mainland9 when the carrier returned to port after the sinking of the cruiser ARA General Belgrano. In the 1. 99. 0s, six remaining airframes where refurbished by Israel Aerospace Industries with turboprop engines as S 2. T Turbo Trackers. As of 2. 01. 0, with the retirement of Argentinas only aircraft carrier, the Trackers are annually deployed on board Brazilian Navy aircraft carrier So Paulo during joint exercises ARAEX and TEMPEREX. U. S. Navys aircraft carriers during Gringo Gaucho maneuvers. Australiaedit. Australian Tracker 8. HMAS Melbourne, 1. Between 1. 96. 7 and 1. Royal Australian Navy operated two Squadrons of S 2. E and S 2. G variants, based at NASNowra HMAS Albatross. These aircraft served with were the RANs 8. Squadron, which embarked aboard the Majestic classaircraft carrier. HMAS Melbourne as part of the 2. Carrier Air Group whenever that ship was deployed and with 8. Squadron, the S 2 training squadron. During approximately 1. Tracker, the RAN lost only one S 2 during aircraft operations due to an accident at sea on 1. February 1. 97. 5. However, on 4 December 1. Nowra destroyed or badly damaged a large proportion of the RANs complement of Trackers. These were subsequently replaced with ex USN aircraft. The replacement aircraft were all S 2. Gs,1. 2 including the original aircraft modified by the USN to that status. This saw the introduction of AQA 7 acoustic gear into RAN service and all RAN operational Trackers were subsequently modified to this standard. The Brazilian Air Force used Trackers. They operated from the aircraft carrier NAe. L Minas Gerais. Both S 2. A and S 2. E were used respectively as P 1. A and P 1. 6E at the end of its service in Brazilian Air Force, one S 2. T Turbo Tracker was used as a possible upgrade, but due the high costs it was canceled. However, in 2. 01. Brazilian Navy contracted Marsh Aviation to convert four S 2. T1. 4 to Airborne Early Warning configuration, and upgrading four additional Grumman C 1 Trader for tanking and Carrier Onboard Delivery duties. The latter are scheduled to be back in service by 2. They will operate from the successor of Minas Gerais, NAe So Paulo. As noted under Argentina above, Trackers of that country have been using So Paulo in the meantime. In 1. 95. 4, de Havilland Canada entered into a contract to build Trackers under license to replace the outmoded Grumman TBM 3. E Avengers being used by the Royal Canadian Navy. A total of 9. 9 Trackers were built by de Havilland Canada, with the first Canadian built aircraft flying on 3. May 1. 95. 6. From 1. HMCS Bonaventure and various shore bases. All the Canadian Trackers were built to the earlier A model airframe design with a length of 4. Trackers in order to fit in Bonaventures hangar. In 1. 96. 01. 96. SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker Generation 3. 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