Here We Go Again
When the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949, just four years after the end of World War II, it began to seem like the next World War, this time a nuclear war, might be just around the corner. The Soviets were also developing long-range bombers– could they be planning to attack Europe and North America?
Canada’s response to you was to develop jet fighters that could intercept and destroy any Soviet bombers before they attacked their targets. First such aircraft, a jet fighter named the Avro CF-100 Canuck, entered service in 1953. by then, however, the Soviets were already working on a new generation of jet-powered bombers, which would be able to fly higher and faster than any they’d built before. Royal Canadian Air Force( RCAF) needed a supersonic jet fighter to counter the Soviet threat.
