The North American A-5 Vigilante was a Cold War era carrier based supersonic bomber that entered service for the US Navy in 1961. Capable of attaining speeds of Mach 2 and carrying nuclear ...

Yet although the Rapier never came to be, portions of its design lived on in a scaled-down aircraft that did reach production, the A-5 Vigilante ... decades later, pictures of the A-5 on an ...