Название: A-7 Corsair II Units 1975-91
Автор: Peter Mersky, Jim Laurier
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Combat Aircraft 135
ISBN: 9781472840639
Год издания: 2021
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 97
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 18,9 MB
At the A-7 Corsair II's peak in the mid-1980s, some 30 US Navy squadrons flew various versions of the aircraft, including six Naval Air Reserve units, and these many of these units saw action across the Middle East. By the time the jet saw combat in Operation Desert Storm (1991), there remained only two fleet squadrons - many fleet squadrons having either disestablished or transitioned to the F/A18 Hornet - but both of these units (VA-46 and VA-72) played a major role in the campaign to free Kuwait.