A-7B CORSAIR VIETNAM WAR

The USAF A-7D flew a total of 12,928 combat sorties during the war with only six losses -- the lowest of any U.S. fighter in the theatre. The aircraft was second only to B-52 Stratofortress in the amount of ordnance dropped on Hanoi and dropped more bombs per sortie with greater accuracy than any other U.S. attack aircraft.

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• A-7
• CORSAIR
• VIETNAM
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[RobertGary1]

My dad put over 20,000 hours in the A-7E for the USN.

[tasoscorsair]

we still use this proud bird E models but they are going to be replaced by the F-16 bl 52+ Advance...

they have seen glorious days when operaded by the USN

great video man!

[rsm93]

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[rsm93]

fucking good looking air frame . like the sharck mouth

[Bmuscutt]

Have you listened to the music - the words? It is an interesting dichotomy. I wonder if the pilots that flew the A7 and the artist that associated this song with these videos agree.

[David611950]

Flight Deck Safety is written in Blood. Compare what our sailors were wearing in this Video, as to what they are wearing on Todays Flight Decks. And to think, NO more bridle launchs. T2 was the last to launch with the throw away Bridle. So many memories, Time flies when you are having fun.

[rafaquintana]

@jamesdewer I think it was over the Haiphong area, not Hanoi. Even so, it was a pretty hairy place to fly over.

[frenchrattlesnake]

@redbaroniii

Lt(jg) W. C. Niedecken was shot down on 14th February 1969, supposedly by AAA over Laos, while flying A-7A BuNo 153181, NH 412 with VA-105 "Gunslingers" off USS Kittyhawk (CVA-63). May he rest in peace.

[frenchrattlesnake]

The first second of the vid shows an A-7E of VA-86 aboard CVN-68 during "Eagle Claw" operation in 1980 (see orange and black special markings on the wing)

Then It switch to A-7A ( not B ! ) of VA-147 Argonauts aboard USS RANGER (CVA-61) during 1967-68 ops off North Vietnam.The B had a slightly more powerful variant of the TF-30 jet engine but it was still gutless. It enterd service in vietnam in 1969 and was NOT used by the Argonauts who were the first to convert to the Echo variant in 1970.

[jamesdewer]

Cockpit footage over Hanoi is breathtaking. Not a place to get shot down!!!!!

[rafaquintana]

A-7 rules! But I don't think it dropped a higger amount of ordnance in Hanoi than the F-105D, or even the F-4 .