Swing wing, like the B-1 ?
Yes it is a swing wing,but it is manual not computer controled.Pilot had to manually adjust wing sweep with speed.Great jet but was ahead of its time.
Eric,
“Swingwing like the B-1?” No. Like the late great F-14 Tomcat. A McNamara era joint project to satisfy all the services nearly satisfied no one. By the time the Air Force added weight and complexity of mission to the origial TFX, it was too heavy for shipboard operations. The Navy developed the Tomcat and the Air Force the F-111.
Though the concept was for a big, fast, long-range multi-role fighter that could sweep its wings forward for dog-fighting manuverability, it never quite worked that way. The A.F. plane became a low-level nuclear capable all-weather terrain-following strike bomber. The Tomcat, despite the Tom Cruise movie, remained a stand-off fleet protecting interceptor that could engage multiple targets with its lookdown radar and Phoenix missle system.
I heard that in the end, the only things interchangeable in the two planes was the concept and the wing pivot structure.
Oldplayer