Vulcan

USS New Jersey (BB-62) launching an RGM-84 Harpoon missile on the Pacific Missile Test Center Range.

Photographed by Jerry Winey on March 23, 1983.

NARA: 6379321

So, do you know what happens when you let an aircraft design bureau known for making bombers, make an interceptor?

You get, from Convair, know for making the B-58 Hustler

the world’s first supersonic bomber

The F-102 Delta Dagger

And the F-106 Delta Dart

And from Tupolev, known from pretty much being THE bomber-maker of the Soviet Union, among them the Tu-22 “Blinder”

The Soviet Union’s first supersonic bomber, and the only supersonic bomber to be available for export customers, you get

The Tu-128, the world’s heaviest “fighter” aircraft.

Oh, and for the opposite, see what happens when you let Dassault, known for making France’s fighter jets since WW2

especially supersonic delta wing designs, you get

The Mirage IV, the world’s shortest-ranged nuclear bomber.