Aerial combat over Korea in the early 1950s renewed the Navy’s urgency in getting a swept-wing jet fighter for carriers. Swept wings offered superior performance in combat, but demanded higher landing speeds. Fortunately, the performance of the Air Force’s F-86 Sabre fighter offered an expedient means of producing a swept wing naval jet. The FJ-2 and -3 series differed from the Sabre in an all-cannon armament, a lengthened nose wheel strut to increase the angle-of-attack for take offs, and folding wings. Furies reached squadron service in 1954 just as a new generation of large deck aircraft carriers were commissioned. The Fury was one of the first naval aircraft equipped with the Sidewinder air-to-air missile in 1956. As supersonic carrier fighters like the Crusader arrived, the Fury was phased out of fleet service by the early 1960s.