The S2-A/E is an antisubmarine aircraft whose mission is to search and attack enemy submarines. After the world war II, to search and anti-submarines and attack aircrafts, U.S. Navy adopted the tactics to work in groups of two carrier aircrafts; one of which is a searcher with radar equipments and another is an armed attacker. Among them were the carrier aircrafts powered a single engine, such as the Grumman TBM-3W/3S Avenger and the Grumman AF-2W /2S Guardian. Around 1950, the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation newly designed a twin engine carrier aircraft that can fulfill two missions of search and attack simultaneously. The maiden flight of the prototype was made on December 14, 1952 . this was the Grumman XS2F-1 Sentinel, an antisubmarine search and attack carrier aircraft. In February of 1952, U.S. Navy started to use this aircraft carrier and designated it the S2F-1 Tracker.
The Tracker includes:
Model S2-A Standard:
- Italian Air Force S2-A
- Royal Dutch Navy S2-A,
- U.S. Navy S2-A of VS21.
Model S2-E Standard:
- U.S. Navy S2-E of VS37
- P-16 (S2-E) of Força Aérea Brasileira
- S2-E of Royal Australian Navy.
Canadian example CP-121:
- US-2A variant, with texture of an JMSDF example.
- TS-2A Variant , with texture of a US Navy example.
- S-2A Civilian Variant used by California department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Conair Turbo Firecat (New in Ver. 3.0):
- Turboprop fire-control conversion of Grumman S-2 Tracker
- 2d Panel and 3d Virtual Cockcpit
- Stereo Sounds files
- Documentation
- A set of pre-saved Flights. Flights covers some different scenarios (Bases transferring, Carriers, Recognition)
