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You can choose any air force and any time in history. You must build an air force entirely comprised of prototypes that never entered production. They have to form a comprehensive aerial fighting force that would have been relevant to the time period. You could also shoe in aircraft that were technically mass produced but in tiny irrelevant quantities, like replacing the B-29 for the B-32 for example.

My personal fantasy Airforce is the early 1960s US air force. I want XF-85 goblins as my frontline fighter, XF-84 thunderscreech as my attack aircraft, Convair XFY and my interceptor, and YB-49s as my strategic bomber.
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I choose late 1940s US Airforce and Vought XF5U for every role.
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>>64540525
Whatever gives us SLAM and ORION. So I guess about 1950.
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Richtofen survives ww1, becomes Reichsmarshall, and the entire luftwaffe has these by 1939.
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Fighter: YF-23

Attack: YA-9

Bomber: FB-22

That's literally it.
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>>64540525
1946 squad

Fighter: Kikka, Ki-83
Attacker: R2Y2
Bomber: G8N1
Interceptor: Ki-94-II, J7W1, Ki-200
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>>64540952
Based
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>>64540525
US Air Force, right now.
>Air superiority fighter
F-23
>Multirole fighter
F-29
>Ground attack
Textron Scorpion
>Strategic bomber
QB-47
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>>64540525
1945
>Air Supperiority Fighter
VL Pyörremyrsky

>Multirole Fighter
Ta-152 C

>Light Bomber/Intruder/CAS
Do-335

>Startegic Bomber
Vickers Windsor

>Reconnaissance Aircraft
Bv 141
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>>64541186
>VL Pyörremyrsky

Isn't that just a Finnish Bf-109?

>Ta-152 C

Isn't that just a long Fw-190?

>Bv 141
Based Boobs & Vagina enjoyer.
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>>64540525
I’d also choose the 1960’s US
>Fighter
Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III
>Attack
Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne
>Interceptor
Lockheed YF-12 armed with the AIR-2 Genie warhead niggerrigged to the AIM-47 Falcon
>Strategic Bomber
North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie
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>>64540525
Sea dart because it's kino
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>>64541265
Pretty much yes. I chose those because:
The Pyörremyrsky fixes some issues on the 109. It is no longer cramped, it has a wide undercarrige so it is easier to land and it is bigger so engine, colling circuit, weapon installment and upgrading is easier. The main reason I chose it is because it isnmade of spruce, so the machine isn't as big of a drain on strategic resources. It is also more maneuverable than the 109 but I consider that a bonus.

And the Ta-152 C was supposed to be a direct follow up to the Fw-190 A but it couldn't be done because the DB603 engine wasn't available (propably because it was going to the production of the Me-2/3/410 deathtrap). I do have Issues with the Ta-152 C so I would get Focke Wulf to fix them.
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The interwar era is a gold mine of goofy ass prototypes. So many planes I didn't have any idea existed before.
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>>64541925
Seamaster and Sea Dart should have replaced every US aircraft. They did exactly what they were supposed to do. They were political casualties.

>B-but muh corrosion

Shut up.
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>>64542698
Forgot image
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>>64540793
The entire Luftwaffe has ceased to exist by 1941 because nobody left is willing to strap themselves into that death trap.
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>>64540525
I'd go with the RAF and USAAF from 1945 onwards, but the jet engine proved to be a dead end and was abandoned
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>>64542698
>hey Martin.... Uh....The engines are burning the fuck out of the fuselage.
>Just cant em outward like 10 degrees IDGAF
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>>64544405
I don't care what anyone says having an amphibious strategic bomber and fighter that can actually perform well from the water is cool as hell
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>>64540525
Peron survives 1955 military coup. Pulqui II (Ta-183 descendant) enters mass production circa 1956-58. This and the historical Gloster Meteor force gives you a pretty solid air force.

Bonus track: Some potential air forces it might have been exported to based on Peronist political alignment

IIRC only five prototypes were built and one unit served on the airforce. Argentina acquired F-86 Sabres instead post-Peron.
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>>64540793
he was already sick of war by 1917



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