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How the US Air Force’s F-111 Aardvark changed air warfare forever
The F-111 Aardvark pioneered a variety of new technological innovations for the US Air Force—and proved that they could be ...
The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force decided to keep the classic F-111 Aardvark all the way until 2010, yet the US Air Force retired the aircraft in the 1990s, a nearly 20-year disparity which raises ...
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How the F-111 “Pig” Gave Australia Its Most Fearsome Strike Jet
The American-built F-111 Aardvark became an unlikely Australian icon. -Adopted by the RAAF in the 1970s and nicknamed the ...
The F-111 Aardvark’s fuselage could lug bomb loads up to 31,000 pounds and fuel for missions up to 2,500 miles long. When the F-111 aircraft first took to the skies during the Cold War, it represented ...
The F-111, with its variable sweep wing, terrain following radar, military-rated afterburning turbofan engines and self-contained escape module, was one of the most technically innovative designs seen ...
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