My sources say at least some CF100's were supersonic in a dive.
If Top Gun has taught us anything its that dives are the most useful manoeuvre in Cold War aerial shadow boxing, especially 4G negative dives, inverted!
My sources say at least some CF100's were supersonic in a dive.
Do you believe the Lightning could even have carried and launched the Genie nuclear armed air to air rocket used by the CF101 ?If the US wants Canada to use US nukes on RCAF Lightnings so badly then they can shoulder the cost burden. Otherwise they can leave the Lightnings conventionally armed until the circumstance warrant a drastic loosening of the conditions surrounding their fitment.
Yep... I suspect it could have been made to work if needed....I don't know if the Genie could be carried externally, but every other AAM is so I can't imagine any massive hurdles.
As for the performance of the Lightning, if the Canadian and British Governments come to some sort of deal like the Canadian and US governments did over the Voodoo and BOMARCs then the RCAF will get Lightnings no matter how suitable or otherwise they are. If the Lightning lack an amount of tactical flexibility due to shorter range then this might be offset by buying more of them or upgrading an airbase or two or getting extra radars or tankers or whatever.
yep. Here's a pair on a F-89I don't know if the Genie could be carried externally, but every other AAM is so I can't imagine any massive hurdles.
A quick google search leads me to believe the Genie has approx twice the mass of the AAM caried by the lightning. I also seem to recall the Geneie was "launched" by being dropped where upon a lanyard was pulled to start the rocket motor (vs being fired from a rail as many other AAM's are (no I can't be bothered to lookup how the lightning's AAM's were launched after I saw the apparent difference in mass I stopped looking at this issue...)yep. Here's a pair on a F-89
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Predictor gunsight, otherwise not much different from the WWII era 'Tiny Tim'A quick google search leads me to believe the Genie has approx twice the mass of the AAM caried by the lightning. I also seem to recall the Geneie was "launched" by being dropped where upon a lanyard was pulled to start the rocket motor (vs being fired from a rail as many other AAM's are (no I can't be bothered to lookup how the lightning's AAM's were launched after I saw the apparent difference in mass I stopped looking at this issue...)
Plus there is the matter of detonating the war head of the Genie at the correct time.
I wouldn't want to under estimate the effort involved in using genie with an air craft not originally deigned to carry it.
I'm done with this topic. I don't see how a predictor gun sight addresses the issues I have outlined.Predictor gunsight, otherwise not much different from the WWII era 'Tiny Tim'
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I'm done with this topic. I don't see how a predictor gun sight addresses the issues I have outlined.
Bye for now.
I believe it was subsonic ? I can't see how it would have been seen as enough of an improvement over a modestly upgraded CF100 to be worth the hassle.