F-111 Aardvark | America's all-weather attack aircraft

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Cannot imagine this thing as a fighter or landing on an aircraft carrier, but it does look like a very nice low level bomber. Seems to have found its niche. Glad they fixed the swing wings snapping off.

No long loiter time.

Early F111 had poor wing root design caused air crashes. Pilots killed.

Built in late 1968 to 1970's.

what are these technologies that made CHANGING wings angle redundant?

I danced with these guys while flying an aero scout helicopter for the Army while stationed in West Germany 🇩🇪 in the early 1980’s.

Extra terrestrial life, really? God will answer that question which shall amaze all creation.

This plane is basically what people hype the a10 up to be, but this one actually reaches the hype.

I remember two of these taking off just over our coach as we were heading towards the airbase for a week during our Air Training Corps summer camp.

As an Aussie, seeing F-111 fuel dump into the afterburners at air shows was an absolute treat :D

the myth about the precision weapons in the war against irak is hilarious! Yes we know they were used. and yes most of em were pretty accurate. But about 90% of the ordonance that was dropped during desert storm was pretty conventional. But it was the first time the newest generation of smart bombs and missles was revealed to the public. and so every bomb was a smart one. and furthermore, the war was justified by the liberation of kuwait etc. so a "good" war could not accept collateral damage. And there is nothing more satisfying in the news as a bomb that goes right through the window of a bunker and leaves no scratch to the childrens hospital next to it.

Ray Melton from FTA would like this

The absolute loudest aircraft I was ever around, particularly the EF-111.

There are always ALL kinds of heroes.... the 3 word term "prepare to sacrifice" comes to mind. When you give your life so that innocent do not, you are a 110% hero in my book.

На дискотеки взорвали какуюта хуйню Ливию стёрли с лица земли .гламурненько

It was so evil what the US did in Iraq and has only given justification for what the Russians are doing in Ukraine.

Unfortunately, what this plane represents for me is the start of America's dreams of world domination. For instance it led the illegal invasion of Vietnam, meaning it is responsible for one of the greatest losses of innocent life we have ever seen. That's not a heroic legacy.

I was climbing Sgurr na Stri on the Isle of Skye, when high up I spotted several scattered pieces of clean aluminium aircraft wreckage. I knew nothing about a recent crash, but tried to guess what sort plane it might have been.
Days later I did some research, and was astonished to discover it was the F111 crash from 28 years earlier, in December 1982. Tragic loss of both aircrew.

For me, this is a tiny connection to this marvellous aircraft .

Once this superb aircraft had it's initial 'teething' issues remedied it literally took the world of air-combat by Storm: inc: Desert Storm. A lethal platform. A true legend of the Military Aircraft Hall of Fame. Seeing it at Duxford was a privilege. Duxford is THE place to go in the British Isles if one is an avid enthusiast, pilot or historian. The fee to enter Duxford is peanuts, compared to the myriad things that you will enjoy there. I never realised that Concorde was so small, or the Lightning so brutally awesome!

the very first "riverfire" event in Brisbane Australia saw two of these birds 'jousting' in such a fashion that it reminded me of two "Battle Star Galactica" style Vipers as they twisted and turned with their afterburners quite literally on fire

Fantastic video. Great delivery/presentation, and the cultural context around the aircraft is fascinating. The arrival at Duxford sounded exciting—that pilot has a great story to tell!

being in the golden record is the highest decoration for this epic aircraft and no plane can replicate it, well... other than being the sole reason why tank columns in the middle east are now gone.

A friend of mine flew the F-111 numerous times when it was designated as the X-111... as a test pilot. (Short story) One time during maintenance for the radar the nose was swung to the side while it was activated with it pointed out the hanger doors and the area in front of the hanger was cordoned off to prevent anyone from walking in the path of the radar. A member of another ground crew stuck his head around the door of the hanger to look in and was fully exposed to the full power of the radar, several people yelled at him and he ran off in panic, he was dead within a day.

One of the biggest users of the F111 was the RAAF. It's sad to see it retired now.

Depending on the exact bomb load, the F-111 had an un-refueled RADIUS of about 900 miles!

One of our true workhorses. Like the B-52, a long-serving survivor of our air forces. As for the "swing wing", it was also included on the B-1 Lancer.

Reagan sent aardvarks for a terrorist attack of a disco. Today we barely prosecute terrorists who shoot them up, let alone address the influences of such malady.

Old Ike said “we must guard against the unwarranted influence…” eight years after he appointed Charles Irwin Wilson, ceo of GM, the largest military contractor three decades previous, and four decades afterward, as head of war in his cabinet. Wilson who’s influence also shoved the interstate system, with Samuel Moses redline social engineering down the throats of every taxpayer, to this day. Buy more cars. They’ll have to keep buying oil.

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for those interested, the FB111 or carrier variant was obviously cancelled. Many airforce aircraft including the f16, f15, f22 and f35 have tailhooks because they are used for emergency landings. not leftover designs from carrier varients.

Best low-level strike fighter going

I worked with this very airframe at RAF Lakenheath in the late 80's early 90's. Nice video,

E jel to novi nevidljivi aaa. Jest dobar .pst. nemojte ići snjim preko budjanovaca tu ima srpski trokut guta amerićke avione a bogami i helikoptere smrt americi źivio putin bin laden i talibani

I know the F-111 for its electronic warfare version.

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I think the F-111 should be built with modern technology and a variable sweeping wing could come in handy for three times the speed of sound I think they could make a Mach 3 plus jet that would be great in today's world with today's technology in it

Yes it was a great fighter jet against innocent people's like Iraq, Afghanistan, sriya and lot's of poor countries, I salute you cz you can only kill Innocent people 😢 not monster .humanity shame on you.

Such high tech weapory against a nation that could not build a refrigerator. Where mules are used for transport, paper runs the whole government. Was this a war this was genocide. F111 dick it was. It was cowardice similar one in nagasaki horoshima mere cowardice.

America & israel the actual terrorist coutries.

F-14s grandpa

Si como no a mi me párese un Arrow Avro con pintura verde... Ratissimo..

I worked on the FB-111, at Plattsburgh AFB, for 2 years.

Didn't this prevent the completion of the TRS2?

Father of Su-24

Must suck being Russian.

Yanks built this so we can cancel the TSR2.

Your political take on this is absurd. (Ie: Invoking a rightly said American Presidential Statement but targeting it incorrectly.) I am Canadian. Grandad flew as a Wing Commander in both WWs. ) You should have stuck to facts about the Aardvark. To compare this aircraft to either a Tomcat or Tornado is ludicrous. There was nothing like this mach 2.5+ swing wing fighter bomber that terrorized all who came in its path. If lucky, on afterburners, F14 and Tornado MAY have mustered. 2.2 mach. I have watched that F111 fly. London Ontario Canada. I have watched a Tomcat. I have watched a Tornado.. The Aardvark would chew each of them up in 12 seconds flat. Yes. Even now. The only machine that might come close to fighting her today at supersonic would be an F22 Raptor. The Vark could Out-speed, out-gun, out-bomb anything. The Pig has imho never been equalled.

Tomcat replaced the F-111

Looks like the mig 23.