8/31/2023 0 Comments Red arrows aircraft serial numbers![]() ![]() ![]() The negotiations over acquisition costs and offsets, (which included the takeover and staffing by the RCAF of 11 Pinetree Line Radar Stations) as well as the debate over the acceptance of nuclear weapons systems for both the Bomarc and the Voodoo aircraft, delayed the deal for over a year. ![]() With the reduction of the original orders for the F-101B Voodoo interceptors, the United States Air Force (USAF) was prepared to release 66 aircraft to Canada. Unofficially, negotiations had been underway before the formal cancellation of the Arrow Program to acquire a fleet of existing interceptor aircraft from the United States. With the cancellation of the advanced supersonic Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow interceptor in 1959, the Canadian Government maintained that the existing fleet of Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck interceptors that equipped the nine squadrons in Air Defence Command, along with the controversial Boeing CIM-10B Bomarc Missile Program that had been adopted in 1958, would be adequate to defend Canada against a Soviet long range bomber threat. ![]()
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