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stackghosttoday at 3:35 AM0 repliesview on HN

The Arrow would be a terrible, terrible aircraft for today's world.

It was built to shoot down Soviet bombers coming over the North Pole. It could not perform air superiority missions because it was too big to be agile. It could maybe be a strike fighter, but generally its reputation overstates just how good it would have actually been.