The Aussies invented a way to NOT have to replace the wing pivot so often, that I havent seen anything about the USAF having. Apparently their way of fixing it, you dont have to mess with it again. They also have added a bunch of off the shelf electronic stuff that gives it new capabilities. There’s a fair amount of material out there about it, because their MoD is apparently as dumb as our Pentagon is when it comes to making upgrade vs new purchase decisions.
The best one I saw was upgrading engines to the same ones the F-22 uses. From what I saw it was a big nothing cost and engineering-wise, and made for a HUGE increase in capability.
Interesting. I wish I knew more. I hated F-111s in the vanilla days, but AMP and PS were fantastic upgrades. I was in the F model until they retired, then the EFs...and they had the best avionics of their day.
Unfortunately, as you’ve noted, our DoD cares about new stuff and ignores the capability gains even modest upgrades could give us.
Thanks for the info!