File:RA-5C RVAH-13 camouflaged Vietnam 1966.jpg

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Description	A U.S. Navy North American RA-5C Vigilante aircraft (BuNo 150834) of heavy reconnaissance squadron RVAH-13 Bats having just landed on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) during that carrier's deployment to Vietnam from 19 October 1965 to 13 June 1966. The U.S. Navy experimented with aircraft camouflage and painted half of the aircraft of Attack Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11) with dark green colours to blend in with the Vietnamese jungle. The results proved inconclusive for the U.S. Navy, whereas the U.S. Air Force concluded that the camouflage was effective. U.S. Navy planes would not be camouflaged until the 1980s. 150834 was one of three replacement aircraft for RVAH-13 on this deployment, as the squadron had lost three of its six aircraft.
Date	May 1966
Source	U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.6667
Author	photographer: PHC R.E. Rutledge, USN

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current	13:30, 19 December 2014	2,142 × 1,603 (2.51 MB)	Hohum	Colour correction
	20:37, 4 February 2013	2,142 × 1,603 (2.39 MB)	Cobatfor	NMNA photo
	14:29, 6 April 2009	940 × 596 (193 KB)	Cobatfor	==Summary== {{Information \|Description=A U.S. Navy North American RA-5C ''Vigilante'' aircraft (BuNo 150834) of heavy reconnaissance squadron RVAH-13 ''Bats'' having just landed on the aircraft carrier USS ''Kitty Hawk'' (CVA-63) during that carrier's dep