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Armament consisted of two 20 mm (.79 in caliber) Colt Mk 12 cannons, one in each wing root, with 100 rounds per gun (the A-4M Skyhawk II and types based on the A-4M have 200 rounds per gun), plus a large variety of bombs, rockets, and missiles carried on a hardpoint under the fuselage centerline and hardpoints under each wing (originally one per wing, later two). The tail is of cruciform design, with the horizontal stabilizer mounted above the fuselage. The aircraft is of conventional post-World War II design, with a low-mounted delta wing, tricycle undercarriage, and a single turbojet engine in the rear fuselage, with two air intakes on the fuselage sides. The XA4D-1 prototype set a world speed record of 695.163 mph on 15 October 1955. The diminutive Skyhawk soon received the nicknames "Scooter", "Kiddiecar", "Bantam Bomber", "Tinker Toy Bomber", and, on account of its speed and nimble performance, "Heinemann's Hot-Rod".
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The first 500 production examples cost an average of $860,000 each, less than the Navy's one million dollar maximum. It had a wing so compact that it did not need to be folded for carrier stowage. The result was an aircraft that weighed only half of the Navy's weight specification. Heinemann opted for a design that would minimize its size, weight, and complexity. Navy call for a jet-powered attack aircraft to replace the older Douglas AD Skyraider (later redesignated A-1 Skyraider). The Skyhawk was designed by Douglas Aircraft's Ed Heinemann in response to a U.S. In 2022, nearly seven decades after the aircraft's first flight in 1954, some of the 2,960 produced (through February 1979) remain in service with the Argentine Air Force and the Brazilian Naval Aviation. Skyhawks played key roles in the Vietnam War, the Yom Kippur War, and the Falklands War. The A-4 was originally powered by the Wright J65 turbojet engine from the A-4E onwards, the Pratt & Whitney J52 engine was used. It is capable of carrying a bomb load equivalent to that of a World War II–era Boeing B-17 bomber, and can deliver nuclear weapons using a low-altitude bombing system and a "loft" delivery technique.
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The aircraft's five hardpoints support a variety of missiles, bombs, and other munitions. The Skyhawk is a relatively light aircraft, with a maximum takeoff weight of 24,500 pounds (11,100 kg), and has a top speed of 670 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). It was originally designated A4D under the U.S. The delta-winged, single turbojet engined Skyhawk was designed and produced by Douglas Aircraft Company, and later by McDonnell Douglas. The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat subsonic carrier-capable light attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s.