Twin-Engine Skyhawk variant.

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Anyone seen this twin-engine Skyhawk variant before ? Could it be part of the A-6 or A-7 competitions?

Here's where I found it:

https://m.facebook.com/alabama.slammer.5/photos/a.1580312672221618.1073741828.1580190638900488/1583654455220773/?type=3
 

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Thanks Paul. I was barking up the wrong tree. You can imagine what flood of images typing only "A-4 Skyhawk" on SDASM's Flickr brought me. Lol
 
Well, its clearly for a Navy attack requirement in the early 1960s.

Perhaps VAX, which preceeded VAL? VAX was more ambitious though.

The Navy initiated the VAL (light attack aircraft) design competition in 1963 with the objective of finding an aircraft having better conventional weapons capability than the Douglas A-4
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Perhaps they initially didn't specify a TF-30? Then later on Douglas reverted to a single engine proposal?
 
PaulMM (Overscan) said:
Here:

"Its a Douglas design, but I think its only vaguely A-4 related." ???
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How could it be more A-4 related? Whatever requirement it addressed, it's very obviously a scheme to use most of the A-4 airframe (maybe 80%?). The apparent restriction of changes to the mid and aft fuselage suggest to me that it might have been intended to use remanufactured airframes (like Boeing's T-33-based Skyfox of the 80's).
 

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