Raider Lead
by Peter Chilelli
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Raider Lead
Artist
Peter Chilelli
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Digital Art
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The General Dynamics F-111 "Aardvark" was a medium-range interdictor and tactical strike aircraft that also filled the roles of strategic bomber, reconnaissance, and electronic warfare in its various versions. Developed in the 1960s by General Dynamics, it first entered service in 1967 with the United States Air Force. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) also ordered the type and began operating F-111Cs in 1973.
The F-111 pioneered several technologies for production aircraft, including variable-sweep wings, afterburning turbofan engines, and automated terrain-following radar for low-level, high-speed flight. Its design influenced later variable-sweep wing aircraft, and some of its advanced features have since become commonplace. The F-111 suffered a variety of problems during initial development and several of its intended roles, such as naval interception, with the F-111B, failed to materialize.
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Steve Bosang
Miss Liberty on a mission in DESERT STORM with a GBU-15 guided TV bomb underwing as well as a pavetack laser guided unit also.MISS LIBERTY is now on display at the USAF Museum at Dayton Ohio.The F model model was the F-111 variant that all others should have been with more powerful engines, upgraded avionics and the Pavetack Laser IR bomb guidance system.She is affectionately now known as the "THUNDERVARK".The F model was chosen to deliver the GBU -28 bunker buster bomb (5000 lb) which could destroy deep underground safe bunkers during the IRAQ war.Retired from service in 1996
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