The Lockheed F-94C Starfire ditched every gun for a full load of 48 unguided 2.75-inch Mighty Mouse rockets.
Twenty-four of those folding-fin rockets sat in a ring around the nose radome behind snap-open doors, with another 24 carried in a pair of mid-wing pods. Radar steered the two-man crew into a firing position so the entire salvo could be released in a spreading pattern that relied on probability rather than precision.
Firing the nose rockets routinely blinded the crew with smoke and flame and sometimes flamed out the Pratt & Whitney J48 engine, so many aircraft flew with only the wing pods loaded. The type stood alert across the United States as a Cold War interceptor and earlier F-94 variants scored some of the first radar-directed night kills by U.S. jets over Korea.