Technically speaking the Convair F102 is not a fighter, rather an interceptor. It handled like shit because its only purpose was to go on afterburner until it was in missle range of a Soviet bomber. It had an undistiguished career with the Air Force and was retired by 1960, replaced as interceptor by the F104 and F106 and then by the F4 which had vastly superior range and flight characteristics. Active AF squadrons with primary mission were operational for only a short time in the late 50s because of limited range and speed. Its direct replacement was the Convair F106 "Delta Dart", which was in production for only a short time. Delta wing jets were too clunkly to be useful. Convair was ditched by the AF for producing low-performance aircraft.

IOW by 1970 the F102 was a useless piece of junk reduced to escort duty for B52s in Vietnam, or in the ANG.