F-111 Aardvark: The Warplane Built to Strike Just About Anything

Summary: The F-111 Aardvark, a groundbreaking aircraft known for its innovative technologies, served the US Air Force from the 1960s to 1996 and the Royal Australian Air Force until 2010. As the first production aircraft with variable sweep wings, the F-111 introduced features like afterburners on turbofan engines and a terrain-following radar, which have since become standard in modern aircraft. Originally designed in two variants for the Air Force and Navy, the latter was canceled while the...