So you just don’t understand modern aircraft? So a troll pretty much? F-111 was a failure in service, the costs alone made it a failure for the insane amount of maintenance needed. It was no fighter, it was a bomber, a fast bomber. The Su-34 is more comparable to it and still blows it out of the water.
The new Chengdu aircraft is a heavy fighter for a lack of a better word. It is meant as both A2A BVR supremacy and extreme long range deep penetration strikes in very contested airspace. It’s looking like it’s a loadout of 4x Pl-17 and 4x Pl-15 (some claim 6x PL-17 while others claim 6x Pl-15 instead) while having a very small RCS, claimed smaller than the J-20 by a significant margin. Can the F-111 achieve air superiority by striking AWECS 300-500km away? No. Can the F-111 penetrate contested air space with SAM’s and adversary 5th generation fighters? No.
Now, since I’m sure you are well aware of why the F-111 != good aircraft, maybe we can keep this thread back on topic, and not further derail it USfanboyisms?
