Summary and Key Points: The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark was a multi-role aircraft designed to meet the U.S. Department of Defense's need for a versatile aircraft for various missions.

The F-111 Aardvark’s fuselage could lug bomb loads up to 31,000 pounds and fuel for missions up to 2,500 miles long. When the F-111 aircraft first took to the skies during the Cold War ...

The General Dynamics' F-111 Aardvark, also known as "Pig," is one ... air dominance by producing a multi-role supersonic combat aircraft capable of flying below enemy radar. However, the fighter ...

Several prominent military aircraft have incorporated variable-sweep wings. The first to be put into production was the F-111 Aardvark. But the F-111 wasn’t the first aircraft to feature the ...

It began producing bomber aircraft during World War II before transitioning to the now retired F-111 Aardvark in the 1960s. Several years later, it started building F-16s. The first F-35 Joint ...