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Originally Posted by pwd72s View Post
Did some reading on the fighter/bomber F-111. Evidently it didn't dogfight & maneuver well. But it didn't have to...it was fast enough to flee from a fight...
It wasn't a fighter/bomber and it was never meant to be capable of dogfighting. Closer to being just a supersonic bomber.

And even at Mach 2.5, it couldn't effectively "flee" from (outrun) air to air missiles.
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