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The North American XF-108 Rapier was a proposed long-range, high-speed interceptor aircraft designed by North American Aviation intended to defend the United States from supersonic Soviet strategic bombers.
The General Electric YJ93 turbojet engine was designed as the powerplant for both the North American XB-70 Valkyrie bomber and the North American XF-108 Rapier interceptor. The YJ93 was a single-shaft axial-flow turbojet with a variable-stator compressor and a fully variable convergent/divergent exhaust nozzle.
North American F-107; North American NA-116; North American NA-335; North American XA2J Super Savage; North American XB-70 Valkyrie; North American XF-108 Rapier; North American YF-93; Northrop F-20 Tigershark; Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A; Northrop N-1; Northrop N-102 Fang; Northrop N-204; Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet; Northrop XP-79; Northrop YA ...
The North American A-5 Vigilante is an American carrier-based supersonic bomber designed and built ... North American XF-108 Rapier; Aircraft of comparable role ...
North American Aviation North American Aviation's entry in a United States Air Force tactical fighter-bomber design competition of the 1950s, based on the F-100 Super Sabre. Originally designated F-100B 1956 Never 3 XF-108 Rapier: Interceptor North American Aviation Never Never 0 (1 Mock-up) F-110 Spectre/F-4 Phantom II: Interceptor; Fighter-bomber
The Hughes AN/ASG-18 Fire Control System was a prototype airborne fire control radar system for the planned North American XF-108 Rapier interceptor aircraft, and the Lockheed YF-12 for the United States Air Force.
The XF-88 was developed into the F-101 Voodoo supersonic penetration fighter-bomber. [2] [3] The North American XF-108 Rapier project was for a long-range interceptor intended to launch from the continental United States and intercept Soviet bombers while still in the far Arctic.
The term "Century Series" does not include less successful models between the F-100 and F-109 that did not go past design or prototype stage: the Republic XF-103 and North American XF-108 Rapier interceptor concepts, the North American F-107 tactical fighter prototype (cancelled in favor of the F-105), and designation "F-109" which was ...