Lewd fat Vark-butt.

>>63917847 (OP)
>under appreciated
Swept wing, mach + nuke truck. What's not to like?

>>63917853
Didn't these ice more Iraqi armor than Thunderbolts?

>>63917863
Damn. Pretty good for such old birds.

>>63917863
because of their faster response time, the amount of PGM's it was dropping and their better availability than the thunderbolt with regards to wheather/atmospheric conditions they got way more done, yes.
PGM's in general were responsible for a truly outstanding amount of targets hit despite making up a relatively small percentage and i realized just now you can turn this into a "despite making up only 13% of the population" meme.

>>63917891
>>63917884
>>63917863
Ror. Rmao, even.

>>63917853
My inability to purchase several and then refit them for mercenary service.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who like them. Today OP was not a faggot.

>>63917891
>>63917903
despite making up only 5.07% of the US desert storm airfleet, F-111's commited over 80% of the PGM attacks.

>>63918090
White levels of success with black levels of "despite."

>>63917891
It’s almost like low and slow is an inferior method of striking ground targets…

>>63918108
Explain the OV-10.

>>63918130
>It was developed in the 1960s as a special aircraft for counter-insurgency (COIN) combat
right so not an open war against an opponent with comprehensive air defense and hardened targets to kill.

>>63918140
Fair, but we're still talking about "low and slow being an inferior tactic for striking ground targets."

>>63918142
i mean, sure, if your targets are completely incapable of really fighting back much it has it's merits, but even then there's the caveat of it being pretty damn slow to on location provided it's not already on patrol or active in the area.

>>63917871
FFFFFFFFRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTPHBBBBLLLLLTTTBBBBLLBLBLBTTTT
Goddamn son.

>>63918142
There's a reason the west uses F-35s to drop JDAMs on everyone and the OV-10 is retired.

>>63917847 (OP)
Like the rest of the century series it's a shitty airplane
>inb4 no, the F4H Phantom II will never be the F110

>>63918408
F-111 isn't part of the century series.

>>63917847 (OP)
Mandatory variable geometry inlet spike post

>>63918678
L-lewd!!!

>>63918678
it's like spreading her labia, WAY TOO LEWD

>>63918678
Blue board!

>>63918442
it is
In name and flaws

>>63919871
It didn't crash enough and it wasn't flawed or obsolete enough to be a true century series although the D has the right mix of ambitious and broken to count

>>63918678
>inflatable intake plug

>>63920170
IDK, the Deltas weren't all that troublesome.

>>63918678
engineers are incapable of making stuff like this these days

>>63918678
I need to see the skeletonized version

>>63918678

>>63919871
Find me any list that includes the F-111 among the century series.

>>63922420
the voodoo looks tiny there but in person it mogs the 105 and 106 in size

>>63922420
The one that is furthest from the type is the F117 (strictly subsonic), but it's a larger list than you'd think.

>>63917847 (OP)
HNNNNNG

>>63917903
>when they compete, we win
oh god i love to see it. even if the a-10 is a slouch compared to the f-111, that's a lot of fucked up armor. Fuck yeah.

>>63918678
I came here to appreciate side by side cockpits, not to stretch out my underwear.

>>63923798
Too bad.

>>63917847 (OP)
Why did they strip her nozzles?

>>63918678
good GOD

I checked out the F-111 at our local aviation museum last year. Cool plane but smaller than I imagined for some reason.

There's an F/A-18 behind me when taking this picture. Never a big fan of them previously but they do look cool as fuck irl.

>>63927546
that's not a plane, that's a child.

>>63918678
Damn

>>63917853
cursed fuel tanks

>>63917871
THICC LIKE MUH DICC

>>63927546
anon, that's clearly a F-111 behind you

>>63933800
No, that's my mom.

Swing wing makes my ding go schwing.

>Be crew of one of the earliest F-111As in Vietnam
>Start in Thailand in the evening, very bad weather conditions
>Fly low fast as a fuckin lightning, the computer doing most of the work
>Only know where you are when the computer opens the bomb bay gates and drops em over North Vietnam
True story by the way. When the A-version was released it was so ahead of its time that it even amazed its own crewmen

>>63917903
>>63917884
Which is why they were retired. Can't have a trillion dollar jet fighter program, when the top brass sees they have battle tested half-a-century old platform that can kill the enemy at 1/100th of the cost per tank.
I come from an ex-commie country, where there was a tradition of closing down successful but politically unfavorable companies, and prop up lumbering barely working monstrosities.

The way history repeats itself is pottery.

>>63917847 (OP)
G A P E