Could the CF-100 have been purchased by more Air Forces?

The Avro Canada CF-100... yes, I know the attention gets paid to it's planned successor the CF-105 (poster bows head in reverence) but the CF-100 was a good all weather fighter at it's time as well.

Belgium bought it (supposedly based on an awesome airshow demo), Canada used it for years and through different marks.
The Americans considered it for fighter/bomber operations before going with the Canberra.

What might have happened if the Americans bought into the CF-100 with some modifications to carry more fuel and payload (hey, it's possible)?

Can anyone come up with a plausible means to get the CF-100 into more air forces?

*** Beaucoup bonus points if you somehow get them used by the Zroa HaAvir VeHahalal.
 
The CF-100 was perhaps the finest all-weather fighter of it's time, but that said, it was probably the worst time for all-weather fighters. That was the era that found no place for guns of any kind and no guided missiles had yet taken their place. What was left was the salvo of unguided "Mighty Mouse" rockets capable of taking down one non-manoevering bomber. Had the ventral tray of .50's been replaced by a couple of 30mm cannons, it might have been more impressive as a weapons system.

Foreign weapons sales generally had political ramifications, and Canada was right up there with Sweden as far as political clout is concerned.
 
The CF-100 IMO could have been sold both on its unbelievable ability when pushed hard (thanks Janusz :)) its durability. Some CF-100s racked up 20,000+ flight hours, and as mentioned, it was one of the best interceptors of its time.

The best way to sell it more is to have it prove itself in combat. Best way to do that I think is to send them to Korea and have them haul ass, though a CF-100 would have no hope against a MiG-15 or -17, it would be useful as a bomb truck, a role the Americans envisioned for it. Fit it with machine guns, external hardpoints and more powerful Orenda engines, and what you have is a mid-sized attack aircraft that can operate in any weather. Prove its ability in Korea and you could probably get sales for it. It would be obsolete as an interceptor by the early 1960s (and if the Canuck is a success, the Arrow will almost certainly NOT be cancelled), and as a result it gets relegated to the attack role. It would serve this role into the 1970s with Canada and a few other companies.

What might also work is perhaps a version designed specifically for close Air support. This one would keep the rockets, add in heavier weapons (30mm cannons, perhaps?) and outside hardpoints, while also being designed to fly slower - an A-10 decades before the Warthog, if you will.
 
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