The Vought A-7 Corsair II may be the most obscure US military jet of the modern era; few planes have fallen through the cracks of our collective memory like the A-7. Accordingly, one might be ...

What's the first thing that comes to your mind when a clapped-out old jalopy of an automobile is strewn out over someone's front lawn in a particularly rough part of town? Would you wonder why the ...

The A-7 Corsair II was first delivered to the United States Air Force in 1968 and continued to serve until after the first Gulf War. It first saw combat directly in the middle of the Vietnam War and ...

The A-7 Corsair II was designed to replace the A-4 Skyhawk, but ended up flying alongside it in Vietnam and beyond. With a 600 mile combat radius, 15,000 pounds of ordnance, and range that stretched ...

Born from the Navy’s need for a cheap, reliable, carrier-ready attacker, the A-7 Corsair II replaced the iconic A-4 Skyhawk and rewrote the rules of Cold War air power. With a 15,000-pound payload, ...

Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...

As the United States Air Force and Navy struggle to justify the exorbitant cost of their sixth-generation warplane programs to an understandably skeptical Congress, it’s important to remember that ...