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On 4/11/24 10:00, Jim Wilkins wrote:

After a rant on the Avro Arrow I looked for similar aircraft that
weren't cancelled and found the A-5. After ballistic missiles obsoleted
its original role it was repurposed into recon. They had a high loss
rate over Vietnam though that wouldn't have affected a land based interceptor. How useful really was it?

https://tacairnet.com/2014/12/29/the-missiles-deadliest-kill/

They sure looked neat and wonderful though!

While I was overseas, and when I was safe in Okinawa,
and for years afterward back home I was on a
1/700 scale navy ship building binge.
One of my aircraft carriers had some of those A-5
on deck.

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