"Brash" wrote in message news:3f335ba4$0$15134

Because its still better at what it does than anything else for its
cost.

Maybe that's so... but the task itself is obsolete.

For now.

I hate to disagree, but it is my understanding that F-111s were tasked to
strike Indonesian C3I targets if the E.Timor op had been seriously opposed
by the Indon Military.

Hardly an obsolete task.