I will choose Archibald’s Option 1 plan with MA-1 and Falcons and here is my 1960s RCAF fleet in my modified Avro Arrow alternate timeline route below:
Avro Arrow Mk.3 CF-105A ( StraGen ATL Interceptor Type )
Crews : 2
Role : All Weather High Altitude Supersonic Interceptor
Manufacturer : Avro Canada
First Flight : 1955 ( Mk.1 )
Commissioned : 1958 ( RCAF )
Engines : 2 x Orenda Iroquois ( High Altitude Type )
Speed : Not exceeding Mach 2.5
Equipments :
- MA-1 Radar ( SAGE )
- AIM-4 Falcon Short Range AA Missile
- AIR-2A Genie Short Range AA Rocket ( Nuclear Warhead )
- F-105D Thunderchief style Canopy
- Midair Refueling Probe And Drogue System
- External Fuel Tanks
( I originally wanted to add the internal aerial gun under the radar nose of the modified Avro Arrow for backup plan, but the MA-1 Radar seemed to be too large and took most of the space in the radar nose, so I gave up and let it be a sole missile armed interceptor like CF-101B Voodoo )
Variants :
Avro Arrow Mk.1/ Mk.2 ( Prototype ) , CF-105A ( EW ) ( Electronic Warfare Type ) , CF-105B ( Trainer Type ) , CF-105C ( Upgraded , Internal M61A1 gun armed Export Multirole Fighter Type , with the overall appearance and performance closer to Archibald’s beautifully upgraded Iranian CF-105 variant figure with F-14 Tomcat Canopy )
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Replacing the following OTL counterparts :
CF-101B Voodoo Interceptor , CIM-10 Bomarc Nuclear Armed Long Range SAM
Republic / Canadair Thunderchief CF-111D ( F-105D ) ( StraGen ATL Fighter Bomber Type )
Crews : 1 ( D Type ) / 2 ( F / G / H Types )
Role : All Weather Low Altitude Supersonic Nuclear Armed Fighter Bomber And Ground Attack Aircraft
Manufacturers : Republic Aviation ( Original ) ,
Canadair ( Initially Produced In License , But Eventually Bought The Full Production Authorization From Republic Since 1963 )
( The OTL bankruptcy of Republic Aviation and its fateful defunct by the hand of Fairchild Aircraft in 1965 were still existed in my ATL, but not before they sold their own full production authorization of the Thud and its related materials and papers, including the classified documents of the unbuilt , next generation F-105H variant , to the already Thud addicted Canadair in 1963 , so the production of the Canadian and American Thuds and their related components still continued in the Montreal factory and more Vietnam War money from USAF eventually ran into Canadair’s pockets )
First Flight : 1960 ( AP-63-19E )
Commissioned : 1961 ( RCAF )
Engines : 1 x Orenda Iroquois ( High / Low Altitude Type )
Speed : Around Mach 2.2
Equipments :
- R-14A Radar
- AN/ASG-19 Thunderstick Bombing / Navigation System
- AN/APN-131 Doppler Navigation Radar
- External Rocket Pods with FFARs
- 1 x 20 mm M61 6-Barrelled Vulcan Cannon
- AIM-9 Sidewinder Short Range AA Missile
- AGM-12 Bullpup Short Range AS Missile
- Nuclear Bomb B28 or B43
- Mark 82 Unguided Bomb ( Early Version )
- Midair Refueling Probe And Drogue System
- External Fuel Tanks
Variants :
CF-111A ( AP-63-19E , F-105D Prototype With Modified Orenda Iroquois Engine ) , CF-111D ( R ) ( Canadian RF-105D , Low Altitude Reconnaissance Type ) , CF-111F ( F-105F , Two-Seat Trainer Type ) , CF-111G ( F-105G , Two-Seat Wild Weasel Type ) , CF-111H ( F-105H , Upgraded Domestic / Export Two-Seat Multirole Fighter Type )
Replacing the following OTL counterparts :
CF-104G Starfighter Fighter Bomber ( Replaced By CF-111D ) , CF-116A ( CF-5A , Canadian F-5A ) Freedom Fighter Ground Attack Aircraft ( Replaced By CF-111H )
CT-114 Tutor still existed and used Orenda licensed built J85 engine in my ATL.
However, with the Thud took over the place of Starfighter in RCAF and the change of the role model, its eventual appearance was different than its OTL counterpart. Its original CF-104 style T-tail was replaced by the taller and more conventional tail in F-105D Thud style along with a pair of F-84G Thunderjet style straight wings and horizontal stabilizers.
Like the more reasonable objections towards my previous hypothetical “ Velvet Glove / XA-20 tracked SAM vehicle “ proposal , Canadair eventually realized that the development of the Velvet Glove AAM and its Semi-active radar had nowhere to go, so they decided to cancel the project and donated some of the related materials to some local technological universities for the purposes of education and research while giving more space for the more suitable combo of American AIM-4 Falcon and MA-1 Radar to enter the Avro Arrow Project in my ATL.
That’s all for my modified Avro Arrow ATL!
Have a nice day!
