Ahem, what about the Avro Arrow? The Avro Arrow prototype supersonic interceptors and pre-series aircraft actually flew, using the prototype Orenda supersonic engines. The Avro Arrow worked with early testing success with these prototype Orenda engines. The next step was testing with the production series Orenda supersonic engines but before this could happen the entire Avro Arrow program was cancelled by the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Diefenbaker.
Thanks for making and sharing this, Found and Explained; this was one of the most intriguing Cold War designs that we never got; though I do understand the reasons. In the end, only the Soviet Union managed to get their MiG-25 into production; though Canada did come in a close second by getting five flying prototype of the CF-105 Arrow, while our XF-108 (and XF-103) never really made it past the wooden mockup stage. But I couldn't help but wonder what might have happened if North American Aviation and Avro Canada had decided to combine their projects by using the Canadian CF-105 airframe with American engines, avionics and weapons developed for the XF-108 to produce a mach-3 interceptor? Since Avro built the F-86 under license, these two companies already had established ties. There would have been plenty of obstacles to overcome, not the least of these being the different units of measure. But as with the (ultimately unsuccessful) American / German MBT-70 tank project, each nation could have used their own measurements, with all interface points being metric. One of my future modeling projects will be to depict this using the Hobby Craft 1/72 scale CF-105 Arrow, using scratch built exhausts and Phoenix missiles from the Hasegawa weapons set, along with decals adapted from an F-106 sheet to represent the fictitious F-108C. Eventually, I'd like to do a second one in Canadian AF markings as the CF-105 Arrow Mk. V. My Like is in the 1.8Ks
The XF-108 Rapier was an ambitious project with incredible potential, designed to intercept threats at unmatched speeds and altitudes. Although it never entered production, its advanced design and capabilities still spark admiration and show how ahead of its time it was. It’s a fascinating "what if" in aviation history.
@@TeensierPython yeah it would never be build due to the necessity for minimising radar returns and kinetic performance “speed (aka how much speed you can retain whilst Manoeuvering) is key” A Mach 3 boom and zoom interceptor would be shot down or at lest kept at such a distance as to be ineffective. Not to mention I’d imagine even with modern technology this new 108 would still be a maintenance hog. Sadly interceptors went extinct for a reason.
@gort8203 oh then you shouldn't get butt hurt when the Russians made the tu 160 that looks similar to the B 1 lancer right or you going to say the Russians copied us 😥
The F108 project was started in 1955 as an interceptor version of the XB-70 to include the overall plan form as well as the same J-93 motors, scheduled to burn the Boron based JP6 fuel. It was also designed for Mach 3 flight out of the gate. The Avro Arrow was conceived around the same time (~1954-55) but it was a Mach two interceptor, incorporating a 'newfangled Delta' winged design similar to our F-102/F-106 interceptors, both from the 1954 Interceptor Project. There was no 'stealing' going on.
@@paulholmes672 Avro arrows had a prototype the f108 didn't you were stealing I will keep saying that because your country does the same if it's China or Russia you would say the same thing
CF-105 and XF-108 - two of my most favourite interceptors. There is almost none files about the Rapier, so I'm happy to check my YT mainpage and see it being broadcasting!
Kind of killed off like the CF-105 Arrow. Politicians of the day decided that there was no need for manned interceptors, but, as usual, they failed to see that needs would change, yet again.
Oddly enough, I could still see the concept be an effective answer to patrol the distances of the Pacific. The XF-108 and F-107 always facinated me, North American had some great ideas and planes!
Errrr NO..! Jet engines have problems over Mach 2.3 as kinetic heating makes the air going into the engine to hot to combust. Reaction Engines fixed this by super cooling the air going into it's Sabre Engine. Saunders Roe had a different take on the problem a Rocket Engine for interception, a jet for cruising. The SR177 went from brakes off to 70,000ft in under 4 minutes, the 1955 version did Mach 2.3, had developed mid air re-fuelling of both engines and a max ceiling was 97,000ft. Had the project not been cancelled by a sell-out labour government (again) and dirty deals by Lockheed….. We might now be flying Colonial Vipers.
@gp33music41 The Me163 Komet ran on fuel so deadly it would melt the pilot, so Saunders Roe fixed it. A version of it's RP/HTP it was stable burned, without forced ignition, gave you 30% more thrust than kerosene and more importantly was not cryogenic. Used in Britain’s Black Knight ICBM, it was far more capable than anything the US was building but was canned over politics.
@thebritishengineer8027 Keep telling yourself that. By your logic Britain is the greatest aircraft designer in history, and everyone else just really sucked and copied them. The US wasn't wasting resources on manned rocket powered interceptors because they are stupid.
@@PennyBloater You are totally correct, but what was the stick McNamara kept using to cancel the SR177, Black Knight & TSR2 programs... The Anglo American Financial Agreement in 1947 saw labour do a loan shark deal for a £3.75 billion mortgage. That began the decline of Britain’s Industrial/Technology base, as every time we came up with a world beating idea....... The Yanks would turn up and say "that's ours" you don't play ball we want our money back. Becoming a major contributor to Britain’s post war economic instability and accumulative burden on our finances. You see labour screwing over it's peons, is not a new occurrence.
@9:58, a range of 160 miles? I love these videos but they could really do with improved proofreading of the script. It seems every video includes a rather glaring error. Maybe it’s a ploy to get more comments? Does YT reward channels with more comments?
@@Rob_F8F Totally different intended use case. The TSR2 was specifically designed to be a strike/interdictor aircraft. That's why it theoretically had (for example) terrain following radar. The 108 wing design is a cranked delta, the TSR2's definitely was not a delta, and was designed for a relatively high loading.
@@mookie2637 Yes, TSR2 was for strike/recon and not interception. I rise it as I believe that was the British aircraft that the OP was thinking of. It shares the same time period and general shape with the Rapier.
km are European units? lol Try "International units". The only people using miles now are Americans and Liberians. The rest of the globe has long abandoned arbitrary units like cheesburgers per freedom.. and miles. Would have been nice to compare this to the Avrow Arrow of the same time period and whose purpose was identical and whose looks were similar. They were both developed in the mid 50s and cancelled in '59. But the Arrow flew.
Can you please cover the concept of the F16 Gunship? It was a heavily modified F16 frame built around the GAU-8 Avenger cannon, and it's so weird that I feel it needs to be covered.
They did not design it, they inherited it from Avro Canada, who hade developed the Avro Arrow.. Through a bit of "negotiation" with the US, Diefenbaker killed the Arrow project, and a plane flew off to parts unknown.. Canada was "convinced" by the US to buy American Beaumark missiles instead, to protect the US from Russia over the North Pole.. They even made a movie about it... ua-cam.com/video/aJwBHtYHIaw/v-deo.html
The movie took off and ran with some wild speculation, but cannot be quoted as fact. There is absolutely no evidence that a plane escaped destruction or that the Americans "inherited" the Arrow. They did inherit a lot of the AVROW engineers once it was cancelled, but the 108 was developed simultaneously and cancelled in the same year.
Yeah, so no other airplane ever used a delta wing for a high speed high altitude aircraft. The wings don't even have the same planform. Get real. These two jets were developed around the same time, but the US just had the sense to cancel theirs as being too expensive and unneeded.
Hang on that looks similar to the 1956 design of the TSR2 that was built and flown in the early 1960s and also similar to 1958 design of the Canadian Arrow both planes were built and strange they were canceled. The British one already proved to do well over Mach2 as the chaise plane could not keep up which was an over Mach2 Lightning. No available DATA about the Canadian but reports over Mach2. But the British one had not gone to its capabilities yet before testing was scrapped no reason why given? So was the American one a copy of either two planes? Perhaps that is why they stopped building it. Also strange that the tom cat looks similar too. Could this this had been the start of some sort of corruption in governments?
The more I hear of this kind of thing, the more I keep thinking the Movie "Firefox" should have been a Russian movie of a Russian spy trying to steal an American Super plane. Obviously, in keeping with the Russian Party line, the spy was successful, but the spy learns that the plane he stole, is not even the most advanced plane they have and if he gets it this super plane home the US will immediately build that more powerful plane. So, he opts to destroy the super plane will making it very clear he did. All while being on the line to his superiors trying to negotiate for as little punishment as possible. If not for himself, then his family. All with the US possibly playing the Spy to get the plane back or at least keep it out of Russian hands.
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small typo....1000 miles = 1600 km
yep repeated at 9:56
1680
Maybe its nautical miles?
Yeah, I choked on that too.
Thanks for this. As a 'non mile person' I was wondering why 160km was considered long range :D
SR-71 has entered chat.
"Yeah, my top speed is still classified. So you won't be beating my records anytime soon Jr. ".....
Quite possibly the coolest looking "never was" planes I've seen. It matched so well aesthetically with the Valkyrie bomber too.
It looks like a baby Xb-70 Valkyrie
That’s what I thought it was seeing the thumbnail before reading the title
Which makes total sense, same period, same company.
@@Coyote27981 and same engine
They don't grow their canards and four extra engines until adulthood
@@roryhennessey1983 I was actually thinking of that in my mind earlier hahaha
8:09 The pronunciation of *"Row-Terry"* Missile Bay should make us all glad be looked up how to pronounce *"Rapier."* 😅
Starting to think he’s AI
@ He's very real, but it's common for Australians to seem like AI. 😅
Funny how it looks so much like the AVRO Arrow.
...and the British TSR2...also a way-ahead-of-its-time aircraft that was also scrapped at birth.
Ahem, what about the Avro Arrow? The Avro Arrow prototype supersonic interceptors and pre-series aircraft actually flew, using the prototype Orenda supersonic engines. The Avro Arrow worked with early testing success with these prototype Orenda engines. The next step was testing with the production series Orenda supersonic engines but before this could happen the entire Avro Arrow program was cancelled by the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Diefenbaker.
At least the US got the AIM-54 Phoenix and A-5 Vigilante out of all this...
Funny how much this plane resembles the Avro Arrow. And in the same timeframe.
So it's a MiG-25 in a cowboy hat
No it's a baby valkerie
@B-52H val is a bomber
@@saint_alucardwarthunder759 ik but it has more in common with that project
It quiet and fast now shhhh
You mean the americans saw the MIG-25 in 1969 and traveled back in time just to bin the project in 1959?
Thanks for making and sharing this, Found and Explained; this was one of the most intriguing Cold War designs that we never got; though I do understand the reasons. In the end, only the Soviet Union managed to get their MiG-25 into production; though Canada did come in a close second by getting five flying prototype of the CF-105 Arrow, while our XF-108 (and XF-103) never really made it past the wooden mockup stage.
But I couldn't help but wonder what might have happened if North American Aviation and Avro Canada had decided to combine their projects by using the Canadian CF-105 airframe with American engines, avionics and weapons developed for the XF-108 to produce a mach-3 interceptor? Since Avro built the F-86 under license, these two companies already had established ties. There would have been plenty of obstacles to overcome, not the least of these being the different units of measure. But as with the (ultimately unsuccessful) American / German MBT-70 tank project, each nation could have used their own measurements, with all interface points being metric.
One of my future modeling projects will be to depict this using the Hobby Craft 1/72 scale CF-105 Arrow, using scratch built exhausts and Phoenix missiles from the Hasegawa weapons set, along with decals adapted from an F-106 sheet to represent the fictitious F-108C. Eventually, I'd like to do a second one in Canadian AF markings as the CF-105 Arrow Mk. V.
My Like is in the 1.8Ks
Looks a lot like the carrier based RA-5C Vigilante
Same company
@@VigilanteAgumon Same forward fuselage and other components I think.
Ironic, an interceptor built to stop a supersonic bomber that never happened. Cough-cough, Foxbat.
Foxbat was built in dozens. Unless you mean an actual interception which it also had. It just never shot anything bombers down before.
The Molot bomber was a bootleg B-47/52. It ended up carrying rocket boosters and fuel tanks on it's back instead of dropping nukes.
The XF-108 Rapier was an ambitious project with incredible potential, designed to intercept threats at unmatched speeds and altitudes. Although it never entered production, its advanced design and capabilities still spark admiration and show how ahead of its time it was. It’s a fascinating "what if" in aviation history.
Welcome Back, Avro Arrow!
If you think it looks like an XB-70 you're right. It was designed by the same people and borrowed a lot of technology the engines in particular.
0:43 I had no idea Mr. Handy from Fallout was in a documentary! lol
I thought the rapier was meant to fight the m-50 which was a Soviet supersonic bomber ( its real performance were very modest despite the looks)
It would have been a great aircraft. A modern version would be useful for long range interception and as a munitions truck.
The F-15EX flies at mach 2.5+ and 3000 miles of range. I think it would satisfy the role of bomber inceptor.
Would love to see you do a video on the Super Scorpion developments.
Could you do one about the SR-71I? It’s basically the YF-12, but with AIM-120’s, and with the SR-71 body instead of the A-12.
So America's version of the MiG-31
If you look at the timeline and operational role it is closer to being America’s Mig25
@@thekraken1173and ten years earlier.
USAF - *Looks over the border at what the RCAF is upto in the mid 50s*
"We want one of those."
"Accept for Fallout fans," Well depending on if we can get to a Vault in time and which Vault it is at that, Lol
Two of them WERE built AND flown, the SR-71 Blackbird and the F-4 Phantom. Don't youse guys follow aviation history?
The question i have to ask could this be built today. But with all of the latest military aviation technologies .
YES exactly my thought too!
Of course it could. But why?
@@TeensierPython yeah it would never be build due to the necessity for minimising radar returns and kinetic performance “speed (aka how much speed you can retain whilst Manoeuvering) is key”
A Mach 3 boom and zoom interceptor would be shot down or at lest kept at such a distance as to be ineffective.
Not to mention I’d imagine even with modern technology this new 108 would still be a maintenance hog.
Sadly interceptors went extinct for a reason.
They didn't design it the took almost all of it from the Canadian build Avro Arrow.
Both have a Delta wing, and the similarities pretty much end there.
the planes were developed simultaneously and both were cancelled in 1959. There is no evidence designs or technology were stolen, but I do wonder.
Yeah, so no other airplane ever used a delta wing. The wings don't even have the same planform. Get real.
Are you going to cover the F-4X? The projected speeds surpassed the Foxbat, putting it in range of the SR-72.
The Lockheed aircraft design looks a lot like the Bristol 188 but larger.
That is just a Avro arrow but with weird wings stealing is not nice
Yeah, so no other airplane ever used a delta wing. The wings don't even have the same planform. Get real.
@gort8203 oh then you shouldn't get butt hurt when the Russians made the tu 160 that looks similar to the B 1 lancer right or you going to say the Russians copied us 😥
The F108 project was started in 1955 as an interceptor version of the XB-70 to include the overall plan form as well as the same J-93 motors, scheduled to burn the Boron based JP6 fuel. It was also designed for Mach 3 flight out of the gate. The Avro Arrow was conceived around the same time (~1954-55) but it was a Mach two interceptor, incorporating a 'newfangled Delta' winged design similar to our F-102/F-106 interceptors, both from the 1954 Interceptor Project. There was no 'stealing' going on.
@@paulholmes672 Avro arrows had a prototype the f108 didn't you were stealing I will keep saying that because your country does the same if it's China or Russia you would say the same thing
@@mightymightyenapack2530 You talk like a child. You have the knowledge of a child if you think the Rapier was copied off the Arrow. Grow up.
Curious you say "European units" when almost everyone uses Metric and the US have been defining their units on the Metric ones.
Metric should be called "not dumb units".
fr lol
And he's Australian 🙄
There are precisely 3 countries that don’t use “European Units”; Liberia, Myanmar and USA.
I think XF-103 was way crazier, honestly
It's a very MAD world.
CF-105 and XF-108 - two of my most favourite interceptors. There is almost none files about the Rapier, so I'm happy to check my YT mainpage and see it being broadcasting!
Kind of killed off like the CF-105 Arrow.
Politicians of the day decided that there was no need for manned interceptors, but, as usual, they failed to see that needs would change, yet again.
9:55 "A range of 160miles" - I'm sure not! that wouldn't make any sense, Fix please otherwise great vid!
Just one of the many mistakes and mispronunciations that seem to be deliberately inserted into every video to ensure lots of comments 🫤 SIGH
🤓☝️
Another story of the US going all out on a soviet rumor... Sounds kinda familiar...
3:40 EXCUSE MW WHAT WAS THAT EXPLOSION?
A range of 160 Miles?
Yeah... The missile had a 160 mile range. Combat range of the Rapier would've been 1160 miles and the ferry range 2480 miles. Sounds better!
Just one of the many mistakes and mispronunciations that seem to be deliberately inserted into every video to ensure lots of comments 🫤 SIGH
My good sir, *why you keep changing the thumbnails?* the one with see-through is good enough
Imagine this with modern missile systems...
YEAH...... in an Air show.... flying low at........ MACH 3.0!!!
That's "...low at 3. OHHHHhhhhhhhh!!"
Tictac...... hold my nanodrink.. 😅
Oddly enough, I could still see the concept be an effective answer to patrol the distances of the Pacific. The XF-108 and F-107 always facinated me, North American had some great ideas and planes!
Maybe the Mig-25 was basically a Soviet copy of this plane?
Errrr NO..! Jet engines have problems over Mach 2.3 as kinetic heating makes the air going into the engine to hot to combust. Reaction Engines fixed this by super cooling the air going into it's Sabre Engine. Saunders Roe had a different take on the problem a Rocket Engine for interception, a jet for cruising. The SR177 went from brakes off to 70,000ft in under 4 minutes, the 1955 version did Mach 2.3, had developed mid air re-fuelling of both engines and a max ceiling was 97,000ft. Had the project not been cancelled by a sell-out labour government (again) and dirty deals by Lockheed….. We might now be flying Colonial Vipers.
MacMillan's conservative govt cancelled the Saunders-Roe SR.177 rocket-powered interceptor project on December 24, 1957: You're thinking of TSR2
Liquid fueled rocket powered interceptors are just terrible ideas in general
@gp33music41 The Me163 Komet ran on fuel so deadly it would melt the pilot, so Saunders Roe fixed it. A version of it's RP/HTP it was stable burned, without forced ignition, gave you 30% more thrust than kerosene and more importantly was not cryogenic. Used in Britain’s Black Knight ICBM, it was far more capable than anything the US was building but was canned over politics.
@thebritishengineer8027 Keep telling yourself that. By your logic Britain is the greatest aircraft designer in history, and everyone else just really sucked and copied them. The US wasn't wasting resources on manned rocket powered interceptors because they are stupid.
@@PennyBloater You are totally correct, but what was the stick McNamara kept using to cancel the SR177, Black Knight & TSR2 programs... The Anglo American Financial Agreement in 1947 saw labour do a loan shark deal for a £3.75 billion mortgage. That began the decline of Britain’s Industrial/Technology base, as every time we came up with a world beating idea....... The Yanks would turn up and say "that's ours" you don't play ball we want our money back. Becoming a major contributor to Britain’s post war economic instability and accumulative burden on our finances. You see labour screwing over it's peons, is not a new occurrence.
It was meant to an escort for the B-70 . When it got canceled so did the Rapier
It looks like a mix of the Avro and the TSR, with a touch of Vakyrie , probably copied from some Russian design...
The SR71 could also beat anything flying today. But it was a nightmare to maintain. Best performance in one category is not *always* a trump card.
@9:58, a range of 160 miles? I love these videos but they could really do with improved proofreading of the script. It seems every video includes a rather glaring error. Maybe it’s a ploy to get more comments? Does YT reward channels with more comments?
Just one of the many mistakes and mispronunciations he deliberately inserts into every video to ensure lots of comments 🫤 SIGH
YF-12 signing in at12:36 :)
Why would you crack a nugget Nick?
Now we can see where the F-15 and A-5 Vigilante were born from .. - a decade or two earlier.
No square space fluid engine? Bro really fell of
"European Units" are actually "THE ENTIRE EFFING WORLD UNITS, *except US."
3:38 they knew what they were doing 💀
When ever you have funding problems that means the kickbacks weren't large enough.
that's not the Avro Arrow
Hang on there was a British low flying plane that had quite a similar wing configuration
BAC TSR2
@@Rob_F8F Totally different intended use case. The TSR2 was specifically designed to be a strike/interdictor aircraft. That's why it theoretically had (for example) terrain following radar. The 108 wing design is a cranked delta, the TSR2's definitely was not a delta, and was designed for a relatively high loading.
@@mookie2637 Yes, TSR2 was for strike/recon and not interception. I rise it as I believe that was the British aircraft that the OP was thinking of. It shares the same time period and general shape with the Rapier.
km are European units? lol Try "International units".
The only people using miles now are Americans and Liberians. The rest of the globe has long abandoned arbitrary units like cheesburgers per freedom.. and miles.
Would have been nice to compare this to the Avrow Arrow of the same time period and whose purpose was identical and whose looks were similar. They were both developed in the mid 50s and cancelled in '59. But the Arrow flew.
Russian Kamov Ka - 22 from 60 ties ! Bizzare chopper, that looks like plane.
Can you please cover the concept of the F16 Gunship? It was a heavily modified F16 frame built around the GAU-8 Avenger cannon, and it's so weird that I feel it needs to be covered.
Instead, the Russians were launching farm tractors into space.😂😂
Looks very much like the AVRO Arrow interceptor in planform.
They did not design it, they inherited it from Avro Canada, who hade developed the Avro Arrow..
Through a bit of "negotiation" with the US, Diefenbaker killed the Arrow project, and a plane flew off to parts unknown..
Canada was "convinced" by the US to buy American Beaumark missiles instead, to protect the US from Russia over the North Pole..
They even made a movie about it... ua-cam.com/video/aJwBHtYHIaw/v-deo.html
The movie took off and ran with some wild speculation, but cannot be quoted as fact. There is absolutely no evidence that a plane escaped destruction or that the Americans "inherited" the Arrow. They did inherit a lot of the AVROW engineers once it was cancelled, but the 108 was developed simultaneously and cancelled in the same year.
Yeah, so no other airplane ever used a delta wing for a high speed high altitude aircraft. The wings don't even have the same planform. Get real. These two jets were developed around the same time, but the US just had the sense to cancel theirs as being too expensive and unneeded.
Do a video on the project isinglass aircraft,which was a proposed SR-71 replacement designed in the mid 1960s
Hi, can you make a video on HAL HF-24 Marut.
has any african ever produced a military aircraft or have plans for one?
The rockets of space x are considered military tech and elon is from africa 😂
@@cmbaz1140 but non of space x's ventures directly serves any African interests. I like your thinking
@@keithchiyanike2985the cheetah? used by South Africa
@@keithchiyanike2985cheetah
@@themalhotras1597 that's interesting didn't know about it
Hang on that looks similar to the 1956 design of the TSR2 that was built and flown in the early 1960s and also similar to 1958 design of the Canadian Arrow both planes were built and strange they were canceled. The British one already proved to do well over Mach2 as the chaise plane could not keep up which was an over Mach2 Lightning. No available DATA about the Canadian but reports over Mach2. But the British one had not gone to its capabilities yet before testing was scrapped no reason why given? So was the American one a copy of either two planes? Perhaps that is why they stopped building it. Also strange that the tom cat looks similar too. Could this this had been the start of some sort of corruption in governments?
What part is exactly similar?
TSR2 is nothing alike.
And the arrow... Sure its as similar as all twin engined delta winged planes are to each other...
Imagine a hypersonic UAV..but instead of manned like this aircraft it's a bit smaller and flies like a mcq9 reaper drone
I do want to see a vid on the Rockwell XFV-12
Well that was good timing on my part
Looks like the cousin of the Avro Arrow and the TSR2
So basically this would be a MiG-25 just 15 odd years early.
Bankrupt project Skylon next please.
Awesome video!
Could you do a video covering the ORIGINAL F-14B, and it's planned follow-on, the F-14C?
Vigilante with larger wings , mach 3 , don't think so.
0:41 Post world war lifestyle include a floating robot from a well known video game franchise 😌
15:24 Dassault Rafale please..😊
Why does it say FX-108 on the animation if it’s supposed to be XF-108?
An American President was involved at some point that's why.
Can you do a video about the A5?
Bears a remarkable similarity to the Canadian Avro Arrow... 🙄
The more I hear of this kind of thing, the more I keep thinking the Movie "Firefox" should have been a Russian movie of a Russian spy trying to steal an American Super plane. Obviously, in keeping with the Russian Party line, the spy was successful, but the spy learns that the plane he stole, is not even the most advanced plane they have and if he gets it this super plane home the US will immediately build that more powerful plane. So, he opts to destroy the super plane will making it very clear he did. All while being on the line to his superiors trying to negotiate for as little punishment as possible. If not for himself, then his family. All with the US possibly playing the Spy to get the plane back or at least keep it out of Russian hands.
It the flying brick December
UK, Italy, and Japan GCAP program.
Missiles won out.
baby XB-70
Ooh look a TSR-2 lookalike
Looks like a mirage on steroids
Kinda looks like a delta wing aardvark
Look up A-5 Vigilante
Yes, but only in your dreams!
what about the Slovakia flying car?
Yes it would beat an F22 in seconds.
YF4E Phantom
Ukraine can build a Fleet of them now
Never knew there are fighter version of XB-70 Valkyrie
Good story as this one the avro arrow