Lockheed Navy "Type A" VSTOL proposals

"Lockheed-California Company is the source of this artists impression (Aircraft E) of a "cross-duct propulsion system" V/STOL for the USN. A rival to the Grumman and LTV projects, it would have two turbofan engines with thrust vectoring."

Source is the page 92 of some unknown publication that I have only a few lists from. Relatively small format - some 20 x 10 cm.
 

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IIRC, this picture is in Bill Gunston's "Future fighters" from Salamander Books as well
 

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Nope, a later Type A VSTOL design.

I think its CL-1677.

Added to existing Lockheed Type A VSTOL topic.

There were dozens of these from mid 1970s onwards.
 
First sketches included a canard, but after wind tunnel tests they concluded that engine nacelles provide enough lift to keep the nose up. This airplane was intended as a replacement for carrier-capable S-3 Viking ASW.
 

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