Alternate Military Procurements

As the title says, this thread is for any military procurements where you think something else should have been bought/developed, or nothing at all if you wish. It can be anything from handguns to fighter jets WWII to present day.

Some of mine:
YF-23 chosen over the YF-22

Mirage III over the F-104 for the Luftwaffe

Tomcat chosen for further development over the Hornet

Saudi Arabia buying the EET-1 Osorio over the M1 Abrams
 
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Australia purchases the F-4 Phantom intead of the F-111 in the late 1960s and the F-15 instead of the F-18 in the 1980s.
 
United States Air Force buys the F-14 (with Phoenix missile capability) as a long-range Soviet bomber interceptor.
 
Israel buys the Chieftain.

Britain buys CVA01 & 02 instead of Invincible class and TSR2 instead of Phantom, Jaguar, Buccaneer and Tornado.
 
CF-105 instead of Voodoos :p.

More interestingly, how about F-22N instead of the F-35C and a new Tomcat of some sort instead of the Super Hornet.
 
CF-105 instead of Voodoos :p.

More interestingly, how about F-22N instead of the F-35C and a new Tomcat of some sort instead of the Super Hornet.

Is this the F-22N?
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F-22N instead of Super Hornet

A-6F program continued instead of the nightmare known as A-12.

F-14 procured by USAF for the NORAD air defense mission.

A-10B (Two-seat Night/All Weather variant) procured by AF.

RAF buys F-14A for air defense instead of Tornado ADV.
 
Oh yeah, Rubis class instead of the Upholder's for Canada as well.

And I'd quite like to have seen A-4's for the Bonaventure when the F2H's were retied even without arguing for later carriers; get some for the air force as well in the CAS role and we can avoid the Star Fighters and CF-5s. Finish off sometime in the mid 80s with Harriers replacing the A-4s in both shipboard and ground support roles and getting a pair of Invincibles to supplement the Iroquois' in the ASW role, replace Bonnie and retire a pile of the older destroyers to help pay for them (accelerate the Halifax program a bit to compensate for destroyers).

Cancelling the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle also has me fairly annoyed - reducing speed and cost is one thing, but restarting the program is only making things worse.

Yes it is, well one of the proposed configurations anyway.

One of the earlier and more ambitious ones. My assumption is that if it happened it would look more like the Raptor we got than an F-14; hopefully the navalized one gets us halfway to a Strike Raptor as well, at which point we can start looking at it a real replacement for the F-15E and as an option for the interim bomber (thinking an eventual third strike variant that has the same sort of relationship to the base raptor as the SU-34 does to the Flanker).
 
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Some more of my own:
Spain buying the Leclerc or the M1 Abrams instead of the Leopard 2.

India buying the Chieftain 800 (Challenger 1) instead of the T-72.

Australia buying the Chieftain instead of the Leopard 1.

A-10 operated by Israel, South Korea, Australia and Germany.

Japan chooses Mitsubishi's home made proposal for the FSX program instead of developing the F-16 based F-2.
 
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RAF; Shorts Belfast and C160 Transall instead of C130 Hercules.

USAF; C14 or C15 instead of more C130H.
 
CF-105 Arrow instead of CF-101 and CF-104
The Avro Arrow would beat the crap out of the Voodoo and Starfighter in pretty much every way, and would be suitable for Canadian service pretty much to the end of the Cold War if appropriately upgraded. The Arrow also might be an option for the RAF here, as its supersonic intercept range was more than twice that of the EE Lightning.

Iran-United States-Canada Affairs
After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, billions of dollars worth of military orders were cancelled after the fall of Shah Reza Pahlavi's government, while at the same time Canada's advancement of its armed forces was moving at a fast pace. Iran sold its fleet of F-14A Tomcat fighters to Canada, but only 33 of the 79 aircraft were received before the knowledge of the Canadian Caper came out and Iran angrily stopped the transfer of the aircraft. However, such was the approval of the Canadians' actions that the United States paid for the other 46 aircraft to be built new and given to the Canadians, though the F-14s would eventually be paid for by Canada. Canada would also purchase the four Kidd-class missile destroyers and 55 F-16A fighters originally ordered by Iran, both of which would see long service in the Canadian Armed Forces.

The V Bombers
The Handley Page Victor and Avro Vulcan in the service of other countries, with the Victor in the service of the South African Air Force from 1963 until its final retirement by the SAAF in 1992, and the Avro Vulcan's being operated by Argentina from 1975 until 1982 (the aircraft being destroyed during the Falklands War) and by Australia from 1966 until 1995.
 
Canada would also purchase the four Kidd-class missile destroyers and 55 F-16A fighters originally ordered by Iran, both of which would see long service in the Canadian Armed Forces.

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What on earth would we do with F-16s? Better than the F-5s I'll grant, but it sounds like a rather pointless acquisition to me.
 
The South American nations that bought Brooklyn-class CLs replace them in the late 70's with Cleveland-class CLs or Baltimore-class CAs.
 
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