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Yeah hi, can anyone tell me when the F111s were last deployed in combat?
have they ever? just asking.

We got them after Vietnam, some time in the mid 70s. I remember them making
a flypast over the centre of Brisbane on their delivery flight.

The only "conflicts" we've had since then have been Gulf War, East Timor,
and Gulf W War, and we didn't deploy them for any of those.

They are intended for a strategic role in our national defence, and it's
unlikely we'd use them for a foreign adventure.

They are getting on a bit, but they remain enormously capable aircraft, and
it is difficult to see how we could replace them with anything possessing
the same range and payload.

That we could afford, I mean - I can't see us buying Bones.