Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Did Australia invent the world's best fighter jet?" video.

  1. Had it not been cancelled, the CA-23 might arguably have been a bit dated by the time it entered service. Four AN/M3 .50 cal machine guns and some unguided rockets under the wings might have been sufficient in 1949, but just a few years later you really needed better than that. But given how CAC's version of the Sabre (the CA-27) replaced the .50 cals with a pair of 30mm ADEN cannons and soon added underwing pylons for AIM-9B Sidewinders, it's not unreasonable at all to think that the same design team would've made those alterations to the CA-23. Though given its size (twice as big as the Sabre), it probably wouldn't have been as agile. But most early supersonic fighters weren't especially agile in general. And its size would've given it the growth potential to add a radar later, something that wasn't possible with the CA-27. (As the USAF's F-86D shows, putting a radar on a Sabre requires a pretty radical redesign.)
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