Swiss Hunter F.58 vs Hunter F.58A (1971)

I’m wondering how the Hunter F.58, which was purchased by Switzerland in 1958, gets the Flz Lwf 63/80 (which might be the swiss name for the AIM-9J), and the Hunter F.58A (1971), which was purchased in 1974 gets the Flz Lwf 63 and 63/75 (which might be AIM-9B and AIM-9E).

I can’t find anything, but it seems weird that a 1950s plane gets so much better missiles than a 1970s one.

The Squadron one? It’s a more modern variant with the full “Hunter 80” upgrade for countermeasure dispensers, RWR and Mavericks. It’s not the baseline 1950s version.
Almost all Mk.58s (J-4001 to J-4100 built as export version of the F.6), were later upgraded to be ground-attack capable like the Mk.58A (J-4101 to J-4152 built as export version of the FGA.9), but the Mk.58A designation only seems to have been applied to the ones built as FGA.9s

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AFAIK the squadron hunter is much later upgrade, swiss hunters did not have Maverick capability prior to Hunter 80.