Forgotten GOR/SOR designations

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My research:

GOR---General Operational Requirement ( since 195?)
SOR---Specific Operational Requirement; USAF refined the GOR into a SOR (since 1 December 1959)

GOR-1-----?
GOR-2-----?
GOR-3-----?
GOR-4-----?
GOR-5-----?
GOR-6-----?
GOR-7-----?
GOR-8-----?
GOR-9-----?
GOR-10---?
GOR-11---?
GOR-12---?
GOR-13---?
GOR-14---?
GOR-15---?
GOR-16---Issued March 1953, Convair MX-2223(XSM-74, project) and Fairchild MX-2223/WS-123A XSM-73 Bull Goose.
GOR-17---?
GOR-18---?
GOR-19---?
GOR-20---?
GOR-21---11 August 1954, Atlas ICBM

You can add to these numbers?

to be continued...
 
GOR-80 is mentioned in a book about Project CORONA. Please note that reference (2) is still classified.
 

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A transcription from https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA057002.pdf and https://www.google.gr/books/edition/Post_World_War_II_Fighters_1945_1973/xDOU991tA0sC

List of issuing dates of various GORs (General Operational Requirements) and, in some cases, GOR numbers. Also, the aircraft/system that evolved from the GOR or was envisaged by it.

17 Jun 1943
F-80

Jan 1944
F-82

11 Sep 1944
F-84

Dec 1948
F-84F

May 1945
F-86

8 Oct 1948
F-94

27 Aug 1951
F-100

Skeleton GOR 101 / 6 Feb 1951
Expanded as GOR 101-2
F-101 RF-101

Dec 1951
"compact, lightweight, supersonic day fighter"

Apr 1952
TF-102

Dec1952
F-104

4 Nov 1954
F-102

GOR 49 / 1 Dec 1954
Revised 22 Nov 1957
F-105

GOR 68 / 16 Dec 1954
YF-107 (F-100B)

GOR 114 / 6 Oct 1955
F-108

19 Jun 1957
F-106

GOR 166 / Oct 1957
"air-to-surface missiles"

GOR 49-1 / 16 May 1958
F-105D

GOR 169 / 27 March 1958
F-111

GOR 49-2 / 7 Dec 1960
RF-105
 

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