Comments by "Gort" (@gort8203) on "FINAL RECKONING: Winners And Losers In The Yom Kippur Air War" video.

The F-104 was not designed as a bomber interceptor, but as a high performance day fighter. The F-101 started out that way, but the B model added a large radar and a radar operator and flew as a stopgap interceptor for ADC while the F-102 and 106 encountered delays in development.
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@Idahoguy10157 No, it was not designed for point defense, it was designed for air superiority. It was designed to do the same thing the F-86 did over MiG Alley in Korea. Kelley Johnson interviewed those pilots and asked them what they wanted in their next fighter. They said a lightweight fighter with superior speed and altitude. That is what the F-104 was designed to do.
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@Idahoguy10157 Like many others you substitute your own misinformed judgment of the airplane in place of the actual facts. I did not give you my judgement or opinion on the origin of the F-104, I gave you the documented facts. You can read them for yourself anywhere actual books on the airplane are sold. You opinion of and inability to understand the airplane it does not change the actual facts. A couple of points to demonstrate your mistaken assumptions: Yes, it had the range too. The F-104 had a slightly greater combat range than the F-86. And yes, the German and Canadian F-104s were bought for the tactical nuclear strike role, and they were going to go west at low level to strike critical WARPACT targets in the event of war.
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