in 1964, one of the F-105 Thunderbirds broke up in flight during a show, and the Team went back to the F-100
It was later determined that F-105 had been damaged during refueling, and had been improperly repaired.
Too bad, they looked good in that paint
But one of the problems, just not many had been built, a push for a NATO adoption may have helped
PoD, Republic was offering restarting the F-105 production line in 1967, but that would get in the way of the F-111
Here, they pitch it to the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands that OTL created the Panavia Aircraft GmbH, to manufacture a new MultiRoleCombatAircraft to replace the Buccaneer, F-104G and F.91 Gina attack aircraft.
Here, get Republic in on that mix, a few years ahead of OTL
Sorry, this aborts the Tornado, as Italy and Netherlands dropped out over concerns that what would become the Tornado would be too expensive, and challenging to make. In 1960, the F-105 was about a half million dollars more than the F-104, while the Tornado 15 years later had a sticker shock price of ten times more than the F-105, and that's inflation adjusted