It served from 1967 until 1996 – an extraordinary run for a jet that was ... and Operation Desert Storm. The F-111 also carried 750-pound conventional bombs. There was a 20mm cannon for self ...

The Pave Tack was used to great effect during Operation Desert Storm to destroy individual tanks with accurate hits from laser-guided bombs. But the F-111’s replacement, the F-15E Strike Eagle ...

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 ...

Approaching the starting point for the bomb run, we were 10 seconds slow ... It had to have been Karma 52, the F-111 that was lost on the raid. Neither of us could afford to dwell on our feelings ...

In total, the F-111 sported nine undercarriage pylons onto which dozens of combinations of missiles, bombs, or rockets could be mounted. For starters, the F-111 was one of the first test beds for ...

USAF, Navy and Marines Struck Back at Qaddafi’s Libya for Terrorist Bombing. Their swing-wings ... Dorado Canyon was the shining moment of the F-111’s legacy. The aircraft, originally endorsed ...