{"id":15862878,"date":"2026-08-24T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/a-7-corsair-ii-sluf-attack-aircraft-history\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:47:55","slug":"a-7-corsair-ii-sluf-attack-aircraft-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/a-7-corsair-ii-sluf-attack-aircraft-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A-7 Corsair II: The SLUF Attack Jet That Never Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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It is January 1968, the Gulf of Tonkin, and the aeroplane clawing off the bow of USS <em>Ranger<\/em> is short, blunt-nosed and faintly ridiculous next to the sleek fighters parked behind it. The crews call it the SLUF. Short Little Ugly Fellow, when officers are listening.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is also about to put bombs on target two to three times more accurately than anything the US Navy has ever flown.<\/p>\n\n<p>The A-7 Corsair II was never beautiful and was never meant to be. It was built to carry a great deal of ordnance a long way and drop it exactly where it was asked to. It did that better than anyone expected, and then it outlasted the men who mocked it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;text-align:left\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">First flight<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">26 September 1965 (some sources 27 September)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Manufacturer<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV), Dallas, Texas<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Introduced<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">1 February 1967, U.S. Navy<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Number built<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">1,545 (1965&ndash;1984); 1,569 in some sources<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Crew<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Powerplant (A-7E)<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">1 &times; Allison TF41-A-2 non-afterburning turbofan, a licence-built Rolls-Royce Spey<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Max speed<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">600 kn (1,110 km\/h) at sea level<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Combat radius<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">772 nmi (1,430 km) hi-lo-lo-hi with six Mk 82 and three tanks<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Armament<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">1 &times; M61A1 Vulcan 20 mm; 8 stations, up to 15,000 lb<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Operators<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">United States, Greece, Portugal, Thailand<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Retirement<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#1a1a1a\">USN\/USAF 1991 &middot; Portugal 1999 &middot; Greece 17 October 2014 (last operator)<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Built From a Fighter, Deliberately Slowed Down<\/h2><p>The requirement was written in May 1963 and had one unusual condition: every entry had to derive from an aircraft that already existed. Vought took its supersonic F-8 Crusader, shortened it, thickened it, threw away the afterburner and won the contract in March 1964.<\/p>\n\n<p>Throwing away the afterburner was the whole idea. An attack aircraft does not need to go supersonic; it needs to loiter, carry weight, and come home. A non-afterburning turbofan gave the A-7 range and endurance that a fighter engine never would.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TG-cpnI05RQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It reached combat almost indecently fast. First flight September 1965, operational February 1967, and VA-147 flying missions over North Vietnam from <em>Ranger<\/em> that December. Barely two years from maiden flight to war.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Computer Was the Weapon<\/h2><p>What made the A-7E extraordinary was not the airframe. It was the AN\/ASN-91 weapons-delivery computer wired to an inertial navigation system and an air-data computer, feeding what was among the first genuinely modern head-up displays in American service.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Computer controlled weapons delivery: This was probably the biggest impact, the ability to have weapons delivery controlled by a computer connected to the air data computer and inertial system &mdash; this was a true game changer and improved bomb delivery by a factor of 2X-3X in accuracy.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>David Tussey<\/strong> &mdash; former U.S. Navy A-7E pilot<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Two to three times. Not a marginal gain. In an era when hitting a bridge meant sending wave after wave of aircraft and losing some of them each time, halving the number of sorties needed to destroy a target was worth more than any amount of speed.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/a-7e-corsair-ii-va-195-bombing-hai-duong-bridge-1972.jpg\" alt=\"A-7E Corsair II of VA-195 bombing the Hai Duong bridge in North Vietnam, 1972\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">An A-7E of VA-195 \"Dambusters\" from USS Kitty Hawk puts bombs on the Hai Duong bridge, North Vietnam, 1972. (U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-je2fF1PURs\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The USAF, which bought 459 A-7Ds, saw the result in the coldest possible statistic: 12,928 combat sorties in Southeast Asia for six losses. The lowest loss rate of any American fighter in the theatre.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">It Also Had a Gun, and Pilots Enjoyed It<\/h2><p>The A-7D and A-7E carried the M61A1 Vulcan with a thousand rounds. Not everyone used it strictly as doctrine intended.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;I had figured out a way to drop bombs, then open up with the Gatling gun during pullout &ndash; a tactic designed to keep AAA heads low while I cleared the area. Truth be known, I just loved to shoot the gun.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Ralph Wetterhahn<\/strong> &mdash; then USAF Captain flying A-7Es on exchange with U.S. Navy squadron VA-146, 1970<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Wetterhahn had already shot down a MiG-21 during Operation Bolo before he ever strapped into a Corsair II. When a man like that says he enjoyed the gun, it is worth noting.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:center;margin:2em 0\"><blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" data-embed-height=\"500\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/aviation\/comments\/1hpxvda\/my_girlfriends_aviation_hot_take_the_a7_corsair\/\">My girlfriend&rsquo;s aviation hot take: \"The A-7 Corsair II is significantly uglier than the A-10 Warthog\"<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The looks question has never gone away. It is, in fairness, a short little ugly fellow.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Long Afterlife<\/h2><p>By Desert Storm only two A-7E squadrons were left, VA-46 and VA-72, aboard USS <em>John F. Kennedy<\/em> &mdash; one carrier out of six still flying the type. The Navy retired them in May 1991; the Air National Guard followed in 1993.<\/p>\n\n<p>There was one stranger chapter. From 1981 to 1989 around twenty A-7D and A-7K aircraft flew with the 4450th Tactical Group at Nellis as surrogates and deliberate cover for the F-117A programme, parked in the open where Soviet satellites would see exactly what they were meant to see.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/hellenic-air-force-a-7-corsair-ii-pirate-scheme-riat-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Hellenic Air Force A-7 Corsair II in pirate paint scheme at RIAT 2014\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Hellenic Air Force A-7 in its farewell pirate scheme at RIAT 2014, months before Greece retired the last Corsair IIs in the world. (Photo: kevinmcgill \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Portugal flew rebuilt A-7Ps from 1981 and flew the last one on 10 July 1999. Greece kept going longer than anyone: 60 A-7H and 5 TA-7H from 1975, then 62 more ex-US A-7Es in 1993, retired in a ceremony at Araxos on 17 October 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=2075492469630751194&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thirty-nine years of Greek service. Forty-nine years from the type&rsquo;s first flight. The Short Little Ugly Fellow outlasted the F-14 Tomcat in front-line service, and it did it by being unglamorous, accurate, and very hard to shoot down.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Sources: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force; Naval History and Heritage Command; Gunston &amp; Gilchrist, <\/em>Fighter Missions<em>; Hobson, <\/em>Vietnam Air Losses<em>; Birzer &amp; Mersky, <\/em>U.S. Navy A-7 Corsair II Units of the Vietnam War<em> (Osprey); The Aviation Geek Club; Hellenic Air Force (airforce.gr).<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/a-6-intruder-navy-all-weather-attack-legend\/\">The A-6 Intruder: The Navy&rsquo;s All-Weather Legend<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/f-8-crusader-last-gunfighter-vietnam-navy\/\">The F-8 Crusader: The Last Gunfighter<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/a-4-skyhawk-heinemanns-hot-rod\/\">The A-4 Skyhawk: Heinemann&rsquo;s Hot Rod<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share this story The catapult fires and the deck drops away. 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