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A-4 Skyhawk Top Speed: How Fast Is The Fighter Jet?

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was a single-seat, single-engine attack jet that was first delivered to the United States Navy in 1956. As one of America's aircraft that could carry a tactical nuclear bomb as ...
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The U.S. Navy’s A4 Skyhawk Was the Stuff of Legend

The A-4 was meant to be small, yet it was required to pack a punch. In the 1950s, in the coldest days of the Cold War, the United States Navy put out calls to its defense-industrial base to design a ...