Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "F -111 The Unremembered Fighter Bomber" video.

Sorry, but the then Secretary of Defense to build one aircraft to do everything for all services. Inefficient as a fighter, too heavy and large for carriers. As a result, the F-4 became the go to fighter, reconnaissance, and fighter bomber. While it did succeed as a bomber and other non-fighters, it was never a successful as a fighter. By the way its original combat deployment was suspended when the North Vietnamese found a way to spoof the terrain following radar to pop it up in front of AA defenses. They did fix it, but despite that find me a case where it succeeded as a fighter against other aircraft. You also will note that the other vari le wing designs were specific role aircraft. The problem was the aircraft tried too do too much initially, it did well once the things it could do well were recognized and used.
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