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I doubt the USN would revert to a concept they cancelled in 1961. To me the Missileer-F111B-F14 is the evolution of airframe and electronics; in 1959 the radar and missiles needed a bomber sized aircraft to tote them, by 1962 that bomber could go mach 2 and by 1967 the evolved systems were able to fit into a big fighter.Without the TFX I suspect the Navy will put the systems into some big mach 2 aircraft, as that was the state of the art in 1962. However I doubt it would be as good as the F14 because by 1967 Rolling Thunder had been going for 2 years and the F14s design called for the ability to beat the Mig 17, Mig 19 and later the Mig 21. An aircraft with its design frozen prior to 1965 will have none of those design considerations and will likely be fast but as agile as a bus.
I doubt the USN would revert to a concept they cancelled in 1961. To me the Missileer-F111B-F14 is the evolution of airframe and electronics; in 1959 the radar and missiles needed a bomber sized aircraft to tote them, by 1962 that bomber could go mach 2 and by 1967 the evolved systems were able to fit into a big fighter.
Without the TFX I suspect the Navy will put the systems into some big mach 2 aircraft, as that was the state of the art in 1962. However I doubt it would be as good as the F14 because by 1967 Rolling Thunder had been going for 2 years and the F14s design called for the ability to beat the Mig 17, Mig 19 and later the Mig 21. An aircraft with its design frozen prior to 1965 will have none of those design considerations and will likely be fast but as agile as a bus.
