F-111: Success in Action (Repost)
Anthony M. Thornborough, Peter E. Davies - F-111: Success in Action
Arms and Armour Press | 1989 | ISBN: 0853689881 | English | 189 pages | PDF | 139.99 MB
Arms and Armour Press | 1989 | ISBN: 0853689881 | English | 189 pages | PDF | 139.99 MB
This book examines the development and employment of the General Dynamics F-111. It includes all the variants such as the USAF version, the Navy F-111B, the Strategic Air Command FB-111, the EF-111, and the Australian F-111. There is a lot of great information about how the aircraft was flown, tactics, weapons, and technology. The authors discuss the employment of the F-111 in Vietnam, its activities in various exercises, and the raid on Libya in 1986. The only sad thing is that the book was published in 1989, and therefore it does not examine the employment of the F-111 in Desert Storm in 1991. That said, it is an excellent history that covers 1962-89, and it remains worth reading 36 years later.
As an amusing aside, the final chapter says that the F-111 "may" be replaced by the stealthy A-12 in the late 1990s. Alas, the A-12 program was cancelled in 1991 after the government spent $5 billion and never got a single aircraft to show for it.