It was too slow, too stocky, and too strange. But what the A-7 lacked in speed, it made up for with terrifying precision ...

Long after Vietnam, the A-7 Corsair II kept flying—and fighting. From strafing Cuban-backed forces in Grenada to launching the first-ever HARM missiles in Libya, and finally flying deep strike ...

The A-7 was retired from US Navy service almost immediately after Desert Storm, with the Air National Guard putting the jet out to pasture in 1993.

The Hellenic Air Force (HAF) has retired the A-7 Corsair II from active service with a ceremony at Araxos airbase. On Oct. 17, the Hellenic Air Force organized a ceremony to celebrate the ...

However the A-7 wasn’t such a revolutionary aircraft like the F-35 is intended to be: in fact the Corsair II was a low risk project since its airframe was similar to the F-8 and was also simpler ...

The A-7’s origin can be traced back to the Sea-Based Air Strike Forces (SBASF) study group. SBASF was launched to test the flight characteristics of new jet designs.