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Well you are a bit harsh there. By this metric, even the USN carriers were stark naked by 1954.Their straight-wing or early-gen swept-wing, gun-armed interceptors would do no better. Some had Sidewinders, admittedly, but being subsonic and short range...Crusader II got Sidewinders and limited all weather circa 1957-58Sparrow I was fitted to F7U Cutlass and F3H Demons, 1957-58Sparrow II was a dead end on F5D Skylancer, 1956Sparrow III come with another F3H Demon, 1958Phantom come only in 1960
Well you are a bit harsh there. By this metric, even the USN carriers were stark naked by 1954.
Their straight-wing or early-gen swept-wing, gun-armed interceptors would do no better. Some had Sidewinders, admittedly, but being subsonic and short range...
Crusader II got Sidewinders and limited all weather circa 1957-58
Sparrow I was fitted to F7U Cutlass and F3H Demons, 1957-58
Sparrow II was a dead end on F5D Skylancer, 1956
Sparrow III come with another F3H Demon, 1958
Phantom come only in 1960
