TFX, anyone?
TFX-McNamara wasn’t quite smart enough to make it work...
well for both the Air Force and the Navy( ; )
TFX-F-111...Too heavy for the Navy and couldn’t “dogfight”
The worth of the new aircraft was beginning to show; F-111s flew more than 4,000 combat missions in Vietnam with only six combat losses.[56]
F-111s participated in the Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) in 1991.
During Desert Storm, F-111Fs completed 3.2 successful strike missions for every unsuccessful one, better than any other U.S. strike aircraft used in the operation.[62]
The group of 66 F-111Fs dropped almost 80% of the war’s laser-guided bombs, including the GBU-15 and the penetrating, bunker-buster GBU-28.[63]
Eighteen F-111Es were also deployed during the operation.[62][64]
The F-111s were credited with destroying more than 1,500 Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles.[64]
Their use in the anti-armor role was dubbed “tank plinking”.[65]
First use 1967-USA...last retirement Australia 2010...43 years...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardvark
I do hope parts of the F-35 do as well...
Exactly. In Washington insider math, 111 = 35 = a wonderful idea, whereas in the real world 111 = 35 = 0.