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 ...

Key Points and Summary - The F-111 Aardvark earned its legend as a fast, low-flying strike jet that outran air defenses and hit hard. Born from the 1960s TFX program, it paired variable-sweep wings ...

Let’s take a look at the unremembered fighter bomber the F-111. A product of the Cold War and 1960s consolidation, the F111 program suffered from an ever-growing list of requirements and was limited ...