It was too slow, too stocky, and too strange. But what the A-7 lacked in speed, it made up for with terrifying precision, and it soon became one of the most feared aircraft of the Vietnam War. Flying ...

Sixty years ago today (September 26, 1965), the LTV A-7 Corsair II took to the skies for the first time. This American carrier-based light attack aircraft became one of the most effective strike ...