The upcoming release of the F-101 without missiles is yet another NATO slap in the face after a ridiculously and technically fictitious buff to the R-77-1.
Seriously the argument for the all gun only variant F101C is flagrantly biased. There were 10 times as many B’s produced over C’s, B variants carrying the AIM-4 Falcon and he nuclear AIR-2 Genie as opposed to the all gun F101C. Comon Gaijin, when only about 47 C’s produced vs 480 B’s your thesis for shoving another F86 grinding roadblock to the F104 is thin at best. Give the US mains the historical equipment we deserve. Or, just drop the pretense of being historically accurate and start calling USSR the ‘easy’ mode and anything NATO ‘hard’.
