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Nope...I was talking in the context of what each aircraft meant to both respective countries as well as the stirling service they gave  |
I know, I just like busting the balls of all our resident Harrier lovers.
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In fact the Harrier gave a lot more in terms of usage during times of conflict....Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Now that's debatable. Just in number of conflicts the both are fairly equal; Vietnam and SE Asia, Operation El Dorado Canyon, Desert Storm, and Bosnia (EF-111). However Vietnam's air war was on a scale only duplicated in Desert Storm.
If you compare their first combat operations the F-111 flew 4,000 missions with only six losses. I know the FAA lost 6 Sea Harriers in the Falklands but I doubt they flew anything close to 4,000 missions, it would probably be a couple wars before they reached that.
In the Gulf war 84 F-111s dropped 80% of the LGBs employed and had the highest success rate of any Coalition aircraft (3.2 to 1).