Comments by "r baxter" (@rbaxter286) on "Was The Grumman F-111B A Bad Aircraft Or A Missed Opportunity?" video.

  1. How versatile was the F-111, aside from being a Common Airframe? I also don't see it carrying as many Phoenix missiles as the F-14 along with self-defense missiles and an ac, even though those loads had the pilot screaming for an KA-6 for fuel after every cat shot. The Phoenix DEFINED THE DOCTRINE, NOT SPARROWS, and the Phoenix defined the truck carrying it to the loiter point. And, let's next talk about escape pods and the like that unnecessarily complicated deployed maintenance schemes.
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