Blast from the past. Ultimate naval strike fighter...the Bucaneer.

The ultimate naval strike fighter.

The Blackburn Buccaneer.

Back when the Brits were as hard as woodpecker lips they came up with a strike fighter that was a world beater.  A strike fighter that could outrun almost every contemporary fighter that dove down to engage it and at exercises at Red Flag proved that it could kill the attackers too.

Not only was it an extraordinary striker but it was also very innovative.

*internal weapons carriage
*area ruled fuselage (the classic coke bottle shape)
*boundary layer control
*multi-mission design, it performed strike, recon and an early version of fast FAC by designating targets for other aircraft

Read about it on the Buccaneer page here, and on its Wiki page here.