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Originally Posted by dammage79
Probably moot in this topic but was there an idea floating around of re-desigining and modernizing the avro aero? R&D would probably cost an arm and a leg but having a canadian made, modern multi-purpose fighter would secure alot of jobs in the future.
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the Arrow was a straight high level interceptor designed to take out Soviet Bombers. It was expected to go in at high speeds get target locks and fire. It wasn't designed to be a dog fighter, or a ground attack plane.
Your not talking an upgrade, you would be talking a complete redesign, and those costs would be huge, plus we would have to create a manufacturing and logistics system.
It would be several times more expensive then anything else on the market.
The Avro was a great plane at the time, but it was built for the single role of knocking the expected high speed soviet bombers out of the sky.