"KDR" wrote in message
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I have also never seen an A-7 with a Harpoon.

Maybe it is somehow connected with the technical issues - to launch
Harpoon, you would have to have a radar with an appropriate
air-to-surface range (an this one on A-7 did not look to have too good
range...)

But more probably, it must be a matter of division of labour in the Air
Wing - where anti-ship missions were belonging mostly to A-6E (or S-3)
rather than to A-7E, which was used mainly as a light attack aircraft,
with some emphasis on SEAD missions.

I really doubt if F-4 could ever launch Harpoons...

Just my humble opinion...

Best regards,
Jacek

Thanks for the reply. The division of labour sounds plausible.

At least one source indicates the A-7 is a Harpoon carrier, though not in
USN service. The Greeks have A-7's still in service, and it is concievable
that they could have such a capability.

www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/attack/a7/

The Thais are also users of both the A-7 and the AGM-84.

A number of sources claim that at least the Israelis modified their F-4E's
to carry and launch Harpoon (and with many other F-4 users being out there
over the past few years, you have to wonder which other nations may have
similarly adapted their Phantoms). Being as the F-4 has proven capable of
carrying the AGM-142, one has to wonder why it would be impossible for it to
launch the AGM-84...

Brooks