The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force decided to keep the classic F-111 Aardvark all the way until 2010, yet the US Air Force retired the aircraft in the 1990s, a nearly 20-year disparity which raises ...

The Aardvark was the first airplane to incorporate specific design features to make it multirole capable. When it comes to pioneering aircraft in the U.S. military’s history, the F-111 Aardvark ...

XL—an F-16 stretched with a distinctive cranked-arrow wing—entered a USAF strike-fighter competition to replace the F-111, but the service picked the F-15E in 1984 after tests and wargames. -With ...