Word: skyhawk
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Amid gentle swells 50 miles off the coast of North Viet Nam, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Oriskany swung north ward into the wind. Four A-4E Skyhawk jet bombers soared gracefully off the flight deck. At 7:38 a.m., four more were being readied in a hangar bay far below, when a shouting sailor burst from a 15-ft.-square locker near by. Be hind him was an ominously hissing stack of 700 Mark-24 magnesium parachute flares. He barely had time to dog down the hatch on the locker and race for a phone when the flares began...
...biggest port and second largest city. First, the leading Phantoms bombed and rocketed the formidable concentration of radar-directed antiaircraft batteries ringing the port's walled oil-storage facilities. While other F-4s prowled overhead and to the north to ward off any attacking MIGs, the Skyhawk attack bombers swooped on their targets. Within eight minutes, they had dropped 19 tons of bombs and 5-in. Zuni rockets on the nation's principal oil-storage complex (capacity 476,000 barrels), its only pipeline for offloading tankers, and three piers through which North Viet Nam funneled...
...prime targets now lie closer to Hanoi, and there last week the U.S. lost another fighter-bomber to North Vietnamese surface-to-air missiles. Cruising along some 50 miles southwest of Hanoi with three other jets on what pilots call an "armed wreck" (armed reconnaissance), a Navy A-4 Skyhawk felt the long arm of SAM-just as an Air Force Phantom had on July 24. The flight was out of range of any of the North Vietnamese missile sites so far identified by U.S. aerial intelligence, leading to the conclusion that Russia is supplying Ho Chi Minh with mobile...
...planes were originally developed for distribution to U.S. allies under military-assistance pacts. Canada, on the verge of ordering 200 F-5s, is debating whether to switch to the costlier McDonnell F4, whose interceptor model is the hottest in the U.S. inventory, or to the Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, which can land on a carrier. Australia has decided to buy ten Lockheed P-3 Orion antisubmarine planes. West Germany, whose purchases account for nearly half of U.S. foreign arms sales so far, has agreed to buy three guided-missile destroyers for $150 million each...
...Navy Skyhawk darted above the calm waters off Spain's Mazagón beach, its lights flashing in the early dawn. On that cue, 84 U.S. Navy ships, ten U.S. merchant ships and 14 small Spanish vessels began churning about in the largest military landing operation since World War II. This was Steel Pike I-the Navy's attempt to prove that old-fashioned assault by sea still holds some advantages over the modern trend toward movement...