Enter the long Vietnam war where early on we were shocked into a wake up call for reinventing the wheel.again...No guns on fast movers was a total misread of the threat which proved costly to many aircrews but then the light bulb came on again with hard point gunpods on wing stations first then the transition to self contained internal weaponry. .
No guns on fighters may have worked out fine if Robert Strange McNamara hadn't implemented an ROE that gave away all the advantages of radar guided missiles to ensure the MiGs of the 1950s; had the advantage.
