Kirk Stant wrote:

Just for fun, off the top of your heads, which post-WW2 combat
aircraft (any country) have NOT been used in their intended roles in
an actual shooting war (or police action, or soccer riot, or whatever
it's called these days)?

And why?

Some ROE:

1. Combat aircraft means it was designed or modified to employ
air-to-air or air-to-ground/ship/boat weapons.

2. Combat means someone was activily shooting back (or really wanted
to) while the aircraft was performing it's mission.

3. Let's leave out recce, that just gets too complicated!

To start things off, here are my USAF candidates:

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F-84F - Too early for Korea (ef considered a separate aircraft from
straight-wing F-84s), too late for Vietnam. Combat use by other
countries?

France during Suez.

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F-101 (Yeah, I know about the RF-101 in Cuba and Vietnam). Don't know
why F-101Cs weren't used early in Vietnam. Being phased out by then?

They were still at Ben****ers sitting Victor alert. 27 F-101As and 34
F-101Cs were converted to RF-101G/Hs respectively, beginning sometime in
the 1966-67 timeframe, and were assigned to ANG squadrons. Conversions
were still incomplete at the time of the Pueblo incident. some of the
squadrons were deployed to Itazuke and forward deployed to Osan about six
months later, lasting until April 1969.

Guy