They call the Aardvark a pig?
Aardvark = literally “earth pig.”
We call the A-10 a ‘hog’
They’d better be buying a tanker or two. The range of the F/A 18 is 460 miles, while the range of the F-111 is 1,330 miles. Of course, since the only real enemy is China, neither plane will make it to China without help from a couple of tankers.