24,000 LB BOMB LOAD | The Insane Bomb Load Of The F-111 Aardvark

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F-111A Aardvark: The Ultimate Bomber!
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[@KriegsMeister27]

The pylons were designed to be able to each carry the GBU-28, a 5000lb laser guided bunker busting bomb. it be real neat to see those added

[@ollilaine6763]

306kg of filler so not that useful for the weight unless you don't have other guided bombs.

[@theliteralworst9416]

The gbu-28 didn’t exist around the time of the aardvarks conception, the aardvark has like 20-30 years on the gbu-28

[@Ando0o0o]

the f111a was never capable of carrying that or any guided munitions im pretty sure

[@Boombi_]

​​​​@@Ando0o0oYep I'm really looking forward to the other variants this thing will be a beast for CAS when we get, I think the C version is one if not the first to be able to carry guided ammunitions.

[@Casual7646]

The f111 never saw guided bombs, its done for carpet bombing not cas

[@CuttinEJ]

The 111 was a HUGE plane that could carry a lot more ordnance than Gaijin allows. The real trick up this bird’s sleeve was to send 8-12 of them. 1 fast pass and everything was flame and ash in nothing flat and they were long gone.

[@tedarcher9120]

Not that huge really, same size as f-14, but way more capable

[@CuttinEJ]

@@tedarcher9120, well the F14 was huge too. Back then military aircraft were specialized for a specific purpose. The 111 was a ground pounder. The F14 was an interceptor. I would argue that at the time, each was as good as it gets in their respective missions. Even today I think each model would outclass any of the so called multi role aircraft that were developed to take their place. The caveat being new aircraft incorporating new avionics and engine technology.

[@tedarcher9120]

@@CuttinEJ f-111a was a bomber, f-111b was a fleet interceptor. F-111 has side-by-side sitting and escape capsule because Navy demanded it for their interceptor, and then they changed it so they didn't want the f-111b because it had side-by-side sitting and escape capsule, and stole it's radar for the f-14. F-14 is basically a bad f-111b for four times the price

[@CuttinEJ]

@@tedarcher9120, the F111B program was cancelled before production began. It never existed. It was a bad idea that the leaders of the time wisely didn’t waste time and money on.

[@CuttinEJ]

@@tedarcher9120, and the F14 wasn’t a bad F111. They had completely different purposes.

[@thm1940]

The f-111 had 6 x 750lbs on the outer pylons but gaijin removed them. The 6x750's are 2000kg whereas the 3000lb are 1300kg i think.

[@gamingkingdom1146]

Were they supposed to be there? Or is it historically inaccurate?

[@brandondaway1]

​@@gamingkingdom1146the 111A couldn't carry the 750x6 on the outer pylons later variants could but the A cannot.

[@thm1940]

damn, so many likes, thanks y'all! made my day

[@hyad77]

It could carry nukes

[@BillKillerz]

Phly, if you were wondering about the full bombload.... this thing could carry 6 nuclear bombs, and the bomb bay can only hold 2... so guess where the 4 others are fixed to... XD

[@squidwardo7074]

jesus christ that's terrifying

[@molstad182]

arent nuclear bombs not actually that heavy tho? because they need not that much explosives to set off the reaction?

[@stinkyfungus]

Actually, with the right ejector racks... it could carry 20 B61 thermonuclear bombs. 2 on each of the 8 wing hardpoints, 2 on the external centerline hardpoint, and 2 more in the internal bomb bay They are pretty light at 720 pounds each.

[@sleep_deprived_stormworker]

@@stinkyfungus thanks for letting me know my favorite new plane.

[@goldenhate6649]

Wait till fly learns the carrying capacity of the B1 bomber, the successor to this beast. It carries more than a b52.

[@Doomrider47]

Lancer is such a pretty bomber, shame it's a finnicky thing to fly

[@dihannvanniekerk]

WHAAAAAAAAATTTTT???????!!!!

[@idhqbqjqsixjbsnqkwiwhs]

Love the Lancer

[@MrGeforcerFX]

B-1 isn't the successor the F-111, it was supposed to replace the B-52. The only bomber a F-111 replaced was the B-58(which the original B-1 was supposed to repalce) which was replaced by the FB-111A, which is configured a bit different than the normal F-111A since it was used by SAC. F-111 and the FB-111 never got a full replacement, closest today is the F-15E.

[@chrissugg968]

I love how the airbrake is also the door for the mainwheels.

[@prebenkristensen3773]

i found this : Each wing was equipped for four underwing pylons. The inner two pylons on each wing would rotate to align with the fuselage, while the outer two were fixed. Each pylon had a capacity of 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg). Various bombs and missiles could be carried on the pylons. Auxiliary fuel drop tanks with 600 US gallons (2,300 L) capacity each could be fitted.[41]

[@andrewhatten8552]

hey phly, checked f-111 history of actual loadouts and omg it can carry just about anything...for real...:) go aardvaarks lol

[@oldbideng]

0:46 The guy's ID in Chinese means "I'll take you out in one shot - really" LOL

[@spaace.938]

its simple, phly upload: i click

[@PhlyDaily]

ggguuuuUUUUUUDDDDDD

[@olivergray9094]

@@PhlyDailyggguuuuUUUUUUUDDDDDD very

[@Kojakofthelake]

The sheer disgust and envy that got on my face when I saw those 6 kills.. It's never a bad experience to watch one of your videos, congrats dude

[@kinglew0773]

Day 97 of asking PHLY to play The Last Tiger in Battlefield V for German Suffering and Glorious Glorifica

[@rico8888]

Do it Phly

[@Jesse_Angel]

" I Agree "

[@Comrade_Collects]

Hell yes🤘

[@FuckeyDucky]

for the Father Land.

[@Luke-jg2cp]

He already did a while back

[@alphamikegaming5414]

Really happy you made this video, my mother and father met in the air force, in England, they both worked on the F-111, my mother was a fuselage mechanic, and my father was a weapons loader. Thank you for making this.

[@Zappyguy111]

According to Wikipedia, F-111C can tak 28.5 tonnes of fuel and ammo with a max takeoff weight of 49.9 tonnes. I drive trucks, and I have yet to drive a truck that is more than half the weight of an F-111C's payload. WTF America?!?!

[@bendawg8-wi4dr]

The strela missile is indeed broken. The devs are on crack because they gave it irccm essentially. Even from 5kms you can barely flare it because the seeker head is so small it doesn’t see your flares. It’s absolutely stupid that a plane like the Demon should have to face it when it’s a 20G unflareable missile and that plane doesn’t even have flares.

[@skittlesbutwithchocolatein2274]

very inconsistent game

[@combativeThinker]

@@skittlesbutwithchocolatein2274 On the contrary, it's very consistent. Very consistently frustrating, ahistorical, and unfair, all aspects carefully engendered to promote the purchase of premium vehicles and membership.

[@MetaliCanuck]

Its obvious you don't know how deadly the Strela system is then in real life.

[@blank141]

@@MetaliCanuck so does the stinger, but in war thunder the stingers can be flared for some reason

[@squidwardo7074]

@@blank141 stinger more like stinker lmao gotem

[@marcuspinnock1383]

IRL the F-111A is able to carry 50 750lbs bombs, honestly don’t know why War Thunder won’t let us have that

[@petrkdn8224]

IRL the buccaneer planes (9.3 and 8.7) were desinged purely for lobbing small nukes against russian ships, essentially using them as bombs. but that isnt in the game despite that small nuke not destroying the match at all. its just a bomb essentially

[@MandolinMagi]

Not really. The bomb bay was never actually used and no one ever used the outer wing hardpoints. The actual max is 20x 750lb, MERs on the inboard 4 with the inermost MERs only carrying 4 each People really need to actually look at the manual before proclaiming this sort of stuff, its complete fiction. A lot of the manuals never even mention hardpoints 1,2, 7, and 8 because nothing goes on them

[@fryaduck]

The Royal Australian Air Force used to fly the F-111C more than capable of carrying that load.

[@cluelessgod97]

Never expected to be reminded of KSP on a WT video lol. I may have to make a kerbald Aardvark

[@AhmedYT7]

At 5:54 the game starts

[@rollastudent]

10:06 F-114 galaxyfighter engaged

[@farmcat9873]

On the Dev server the F-111 wings would rip with ease with that much weight on the wings the second you thought you wanted to make a slight turn. Also, I am surprised that Gaijin has not made it to where we can change the bomb timer while in flight cause this is a IRL thing as pilots can set a timer while in flight.

[@deadculver4206]

You need to do a full squad of F111 of 50x 750 Bombs in grb.

[@sgthop]

Unfortunately they removed that loadout. Only 38 750s now.

[@deadculver4206]

@sgthop Damn that sucks well It can do a lot of damage

[@MandolinMagi]

@@sgthop Which is still an absurd overload not supported by any manual showing authorized loads

[@Agarwaen06]

"We just have to go away for a long time." Man, this sentence made me spill a very exquisit singe malt. 😂

[@sleep_deprived_stormworker]

using the heavy's voice for the SU was perfect.

[@HighSideHustler811]

Phly beein a straight savage Rollin threw a battle with 3 guys doesn’t even slow down and befor his team realizes , hessss outta there with the kill befor the dust/smoke fades away lol

[@groovie444]

PhlyDaily? More like PhlySometimes.

[@Karibo_0]

Yo Phly, the Strala has 2 (well 3..) guidance modes : IR, contrast seeking and an auto mode. The IR is just like any other IR seeking missile, you can lock on low altitude and high altitude targets, the missile has ECCM but on rare occasions it can be flared. With the contrast mode, you will only be able to lock when there is a good contrast between your target and the background, so usually when the plane is high and there is only the sky in the background. If you get a lock with this mode, the missile won't care about flares at all. The auto mode will pick which guidance mode by itself.

[@0Turbox]

Arcade thunder, where people drop MOABS on single tanks.

[@stinkyfungus]

F-111F could haul 31,000 pounds of ordinance on 9 external plus 2 internal hardpoints. Maximum theoretical destructive loadout would be twenty B61 Thermonuclear bombs. At about half of its maximum weight payload.

[@MandolinMagi]

No, it couldn't. 4 of the external hardpoints were completly unused and the internal wasn't either.

[@slimphantom-l99]

OIII PHLY! There's me screaming in my room! 6 kills with 3 bombs! It's such a joy to watch you play!

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

F-111F, 100,000 pounds (45,000 kilograms). Up to four nuclear bombs on four pivoting wing pylons, and two in internal weapons bay. Wing pylons carry total external load of 25,000 pounds (11,250 kilograms) of bombs, rockets, missiles, or fuel tanks.(extra fuel can be a weapon if you drop and reload in ukraine and fly back to moscow to drop more)

[@jtrec7157]

Love the content Phly, keep it up! Combo time, non premium p61 black widow and m4a2. Attempt 264

[@emersonlau9675]

Love the ground pound in your videos Phly! Maybe do some more of these cas ones!

[@jesuschristyourlordandsavior]

I'm glad we have the ground involved today. Air rb makes me go feral

[@RhodesianSuperiority]

imagine how much fun this game would be if things like the Su-25, 2s38, T-80 were actually balanced realistically

[@BlueLightningHawk]

Don't forget about Pantsir and Ka-50.

[@King0fgames_]

Muh russian bias

[@warkus123]

The fact it can also carry 50 500lb bombs is even more crazy to me. Yes it's probably way worse than 8 3000lb bombs but it just sounds so much more insane... 50 bombs... and it's not like 500lb is a tiny bomb either.

[@MandolinMagi]

It can't carry 50 bombs. The outer wing hardpoints weren't used outside of goofing off and aren't even listed as an option in most manuals

[@RileyKuru]

The RAAF( Royal Australian Air Force) called it the flying pig due to it fuel capacity.

[@wadebrown8772]

Phly daily is back, baby 😂😂

[@Seanwins]

Strela is insanely good. Ultimate CAS revenge SPAA. Generally, if you're still visible in the sky when I spawn back in I'm going to get you. There are some helis you just can't lock, and it sucks not having a radar, and it's not all-aspect so it can be tough to lock planes coming straight at you until they get close. If you want to kill strela get up high while out of range turn your engines off and dive straight at the Strela. It won't be able to lock you.

[@Justicegamingandco]

That plane seriously looks ridiculous with that loadout xD

[@diet_dr.demoncore]

this thing is carrying seven whole 'ninty-four toyota corollas under it's wings

[@OwODiamondOwO]

Ah yes the wonderful polaska. A person who never makes mistakes while creating missions 100%. Totally doesnt jump into random holes and scared about chapter 3 and 7-1. 5:15 (This is a joke between me and polaska, please dont yell at me)

[@deployedkitty]

10:15 PhlyDaily: "Just According to Keikaku!" Translator's note: "Keikaku means 'plan'"

[@deployedkitty]

also: SU-25K RUDE!

[@kaydenforbes9980]

you deserve that like for the ksp reference

[@asiftalpur3758]

that's crazy Steve

[@darksavage5481]

I’m just getting back into war thunder and I enjoyed it lol

[@koppythewarcriminal]

I saw him playing the Abrams and my PTSD immediately kicked in since i fight it and the T-80B almost daily in my Leo 1A5 and A1A1

[@brandonyoung196]

Definitely enjoyed 😎

[@NotHunter672]

I remember when I started watching phly and I didn’t have an Xbox and now I’m about to research the f16

[@THE_No0d1e-l5m]

Keep up thee great videos man!

[@01Durhamguy]

I enjoyed your video FlopDailied!

[@dubious_potat4587]

Never thought id get a ksp and tf2 reference in one video.

[@theflyinggasmask]

6:40 I'M ACTUALLY SPEECHLESS DUDE!!! Like... Shit man...

[@etstamar4063]

Phly uploads get my phlobber phlopping

[@alecte_]

Glad youre back and doing well. Ps. I get frustrated with the game sometimes and watch you to cool off. Gets me right back in the game

[@kulgy]

What a thing of beauty the F111 the plane the Soviets feared the most..........................and for good reasons

[@ksl4044]

3 bombs, 6 kills thats nutty dude, im about 20k rp from the f105, so only 320k to go before i can get my hands on this behemoth of a plane

[@markus1351]

a KSP reference on phly? daaaaamn

[@ex59neo53]

F-111 is a legend

[@themightywookie351c3]

Nice drops!! lol gotta go away for awhile

[@thesolstice_8122]

The Aardvark can carry Nuclear weapons IRL so I wonder if WT will make it the new Nuke aircraft.

[@iKvetch558]

F-111 with outer wings ripped off looks an awful lot like an F-18. LOL

[@UnfollowYourDreams]

2:00 it can carry tons of fuel

[@SteveAkaDarktimes]

The F-111 Aardvark. actually a more effective plane at CAS than the A-10 during its service life.

[@sadohawk]

Hardpoints: 9 in total (8× under-wing, 1× under-fuselage between engines) plus 2 attach points in weapons bay with a capacity of 31,500 lb. also could carry the b43 and b61 which are both nuclear

[@cerviplays6691]

You need a rockets only load out, it can carry 500+ rockets

[@cerviplays6691]

456 Mighty Mouse rockets

[@herrfingerknacks4970]

Welcome back Phly Day: 191 Back to business: My Request: Btw i saw you have the M48 Suuuuuuuuuuper but you never even made one vid about it so why don't you do M48 Super aka Go-Kart Patton (at least in arcade PvE🙃) And because you want to play a combination take the IL-28 out with its FAB 3000 for some multikills -Phly Decal left side of turret -Tigor on left side of turret roof

[@devildog1178]

2 bombs pn the puter wing: can sweep 2 gun pods on the outer wing attached to the same pilons: Cant sweep

[@zora007]

and strela : **exist**

[@therevanent]

Phly, you should give the game Nuclear Option a look. It's in early access on Steam and has some fun flight sim-lite elements and let's you drop nukes for days on enemy bases and convoys.

[@J_K944]

MOAR STRUTS! MOAR BOOSTERS! MOAR BOMBS!

[@rujemto4038]

idk if youve played it yet but you should do ground strike with the a-36 with all the 50cals

[@snickersmyknickers5120]

The Bearcat would be better in my opinion

[@BrileyPlaysgames]

@@snickersmyknickers5120 Yeah but a 36 is interesting to play with still bearcat better

[@rujemto4038]

i like the bearcat but a36 is just interesting for its battle rating, 2.0 bellow bearcat if I recall, just feels like a 3.0 a-10 lol @@snickersmyknickers5120

[@squidwardo7074]

yes can't you get like 12 50 cals on that thing at like 1.7 or whatever it is

[@rujemto4038]

@@squidwardo7074 yeah i think its 2.0 in rb and something like 10 50 cals, love taking it to uptier and head oning people who don't know what it has lol

[@YF-Waifu]

Day 113, we've seen the Sturmtiger and ASU-57 at top tier, Now we want to see the RBT-5 at top tier WITH OddBawz and Spookston, with air support from Defyn(thanks to @Torrengen for the Defyn idea).

[@MetaliCanuck]

The F-111 could drop GBU-28s. Its a 5000 lb Bunker buster.

[@cerviplays6691]

VARK VARK

[@danicastaneda1099]

YO THE F-15 AND SU-27 JUST DROPPED

[@loganholmberg2295]

it has an internal bay for more fuel or a nuke a believe. They used the internal bay to do long range strikes on Iran or was it Lybia in the 90s I believe,.

[@hanskratsrebe8378]

gaijin tries not to make the SU-25 overperform like a mf challenge (impossible)

[@FormerChild-n6k]

As a spaa main f11’s are hella annoying to deal with, (when they pay attention and not just fly right into my missiles) the bombs I can kinda handle with the 2s6 guns but if you use rockets and stay low u can just pop up kill an spaa or tank and hide back with the terrain and theirs practically nothing we can do unless we are tunnel visioning on you alone

[@extraordinarytv5451]

High risk, high reward, maximum fun😭😁

[@treebob2048]

12 ton payload damn

[@Therupturedduck2]

Awesommeeeeee your backkkkkk

[@dendiyankee]

Is there any “realistic” reason why the Su-25 is so tanky ? Would it be more than the A-10 tho?

[@kurnass2000]

Su-25 isn’t as tanky as In war thunder but still more tankier then a10

[@CharlizardGaming]

You made my day better they left fsu out of the cfp

[@skittlesbutwithchocolatein2274]

Steve, you sound like TF2 character

[@djswx]

Phly, you've brought back the "Everybody" intro right? Well, there has been a certain song kinda stuck _In My Head_ phor a while that you could also bring back! Attempt # 621 The song i mean is Virtual Riot - In My Head (feat. PRXZM)

[@dihannvanniekerk]

Stupid song, Everybody is way better. In my head doesn't fit Phly, it's too calm and fake sounding. The e Everybody trumpet solo is what defines Phlydaily Sorry, but I disagree

[@Kyleplier]

I have the Aardvark unlocked. I just need to grind enough SL to buy it.

[@warthunderclipper]

Vark go boom Boom boom vark

[@martinoxholm8138]

What sight do you use ?

[@SugR8]

ngl u should make a video on the strela lol

[@ghoulslayer9056]

Day 545: Phly, I challenge you to the conphusing aerial smokescreen challenge. Destroy three enemy aircrapht with smoke shells in a single game. Good luck. o7

[@cheesegrater..]

i guess when they designed the vark they wanted as much boom potential possible 😅

[@deeptroit_5692]

What russian BR would you recommand? i reached 5.7 but i face full uptiers like 90% of the time and it suucks soo bad against germany 6.7

[@nikolasjacimovic4792]

They should add the Tupolev now

[@aaro_W]

Phlydaddy

[@sadkermit1380]

pretty sure heaviest loadout possible with the F111 is 24 750 bombs, 24 500 bombs, 2 aim 9b sidewinders and the 20mm vulcan

[@Bob_stoneCIA]

Phly the answer is a nuke the heaviest thing the aardvark could carry was a nuke

[@GTA4114]

lol I used the 4 3k and 1 750 with guns in this set up, but those strelas are so OP!!! Russian bias XD

[@chargelead9429]

xray view is crazy, its just all fuel tanks lmao

[@Sander_Datema]

Phly slowly going crazy, day 730....