[Bean Counter]

The Air Force used Aardvarks to hit Kadaffy back in the mid 80s.

Ugly SOBs but excellent penetration bombers in the days before “brilliant” weapons. They had laser target illumination but that’s about it...

[RayChuang88]

The reason why the F-111 was retired was the fact that the F-15E Strike Eagle could do almost as much as the F-111, but the F-15E could be fitted with more modern air-to-ground weapons and once the bombs were dropped, became a very viable air-to-air fighter--the modern equivalent of the de Havilland Mosquitos from World War II.