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Can We Learn Something From The Defunct A-7F ‘Strikefighter?’.
“The A-7 Corsair II, known also as the SLUF, as in “Short Little Ugly Fucker,” was a conservative balance of economy, persistence, payload, and technology, and its final design evolution, the A-7F, could have been the right fighter for the wars to come in the new millennium.
The A-7 was designed in the early 1960s as an attack-focused offshoot of the Navy’s legendary F-8 Crusader. One could easily venture to say that America could learn something from the meager SLUF, and especially its proposed last iteration, some two decades after it’s retirement from US inventories. The original A-7 was a purpose-built bomb truck, which leveraged a large fuel load, highly efficient turbofan engine, simple airframe design and affordability across the board.
All this came at the expense of Mach-one-plus fighter jet speeds and extreme maneuverability, yet this sacrifice was…
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