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To: sukhoi-30mki
The last tri-service, tri-mission ?fighter? the US built, the F-111,

F-111 was only dual mission. Of course the naval fleet defense version was dropped pretty early on. The F-111 is still flying, 40 years later, in Australian service. They not only bought some new ones of their own (C models), they've bought 4 old USAF versions (A models), and brought those to pretty much the same configuration as the original Aussie version, which of course has been greatly updated.

They also have 14 F-111Gs, which were originally produced as FB-111s for SAC.

57 posted on 09/11/2008 9:10:38 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

I believe that F-111s carried out most of the precision bombing missions during the first gulf war.


69 posted on 09/11/2008 9:54:36 AM PDT by Always Independent
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