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A U.S. Navy Ling Temco Vought A-7C-2-CV Corsair II (BuNo 156745, c/n C-012) from attack squadron VA-82 Marauders
armed with 227 kg Mk 82 bombs en route to a target in Vietnam in 1972/73. VA-82 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air
Wing 8 (CVW-8) aboard the aircraft carrier USS America (CVA-66) for a deployment to Vietnam from 5 June 1972 to
24 March 1973. The A-7C 156745 was later converted to an TA-7C, then to an EA-7L. It was retired to the AMARC as
6A0405 on 25 September 1991.

 
An air-to-air left underside view of a U.S. Navy A7 Corsair 2 aircraft prior to the launch of an advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) at the Pacific Missile Test Center, Point Mugu, California, 8 June 1982.

 
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A U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat aircraft waits behind the blast deflector panels as another F-14 from Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) prepares for launching during flight operations aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), 15 June 1982. An A-7E Corsair II aircraft from Light Attack Squadron 82 (VA-82) is ready for launch on the port catapult.

 
Miss by a quarter mile and still wipe out your target.

June 15, 1972: A 42nd Bomb Wing crew from Loring AFB, Maine, made the first operational test launch of an AGM-69A Short Range Attack Missile over White Sands Test Range, New Mexico. The SRAM had a circular error probable (CEP) of about 1,400 feet (430 meters) and a maximum range of 110 nautical miles (200 km). The SRAM carried the W69 warhead with an estimated yield of 170 to 200 kilotons of TNT. It could be used to arm the B-52G and H, the FB-111, and the B-1B. The missile went into service in 1972 to replace the Hound Dog missile on the B-52s. The AGM-69 was designed to neutralize enemy air defenses and could also strike strategic targets inside the Soviet Union. Strategic Air Command accepted the last of 1,500 SRAMs at the 320th Bomb Wing, Mather AFB, California, in August 1975. The AGM-69 was in service for over 20 years. The Air Force removed the last of the missiles from service in 1993. Loring AFB didn't last much longer, with the base closing in September 1994. The 42nd Bomb Wing fared better, moving to Maxwell AFB, Alabama, as the 42nd Air Base Wing in October 1994.

 
Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, 19 June 1972. A sensor repairman of the U.S. Air Force 8th Avionics Maintenance
Squadron work on a Pave Knife pod attached to an aircraft. The Ford Aerospace AN/AVQ-10 Pave Knife was an early
targeting pod developed by the USAF and U.S. Navy to designate and guide laser-guided bombs.

 
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