RAFEng074to09,
Are you deliberately trying to historically wreck the British aerospace industry? Your little suggestion re that thing called the Jaguar would have meant no Hawk....
As to the A7 I'm not sure, the Jaguar squadrons in RAFG replaced Phantom FGR2 squadrons, and I'm not at all sure that anybody who suggested replacing a strike attack Phantom FGR2 with an A-7 would have been taken seriously. Seeing as how the Jaguar was rapidly replaced with Tornado, why not just leave the Phantom FGR2 in RAFG strike attack and find something else to do AD?