Five of the seven "Century Series" fighters that made it to service had internal weapons bays?
The F-101 has a rotating rack, where two missiles are carried externally and two internally. When the first two are fired, it rotates 180˚ and the other two are now ready.
The F-102, F-106 have extending rails that lower the missile down into the slip-stream for firing.
The F-105 was designed with a conventional bomb-bay but it very rarely used it for weapons. For most of its service the bay was taken up with a fuel tank. That fuel tank had a hardpoint on the bottom of it that stuck out past the closed doors.
The F-111's bomb bay was also rarely used for weapons and most often was occupied by a laser designator and/or FLIR.
Everything that's old is new again and the F-22 and F-35 have internal weapons bays.
Back then it was for speed, today it's for stealth.
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