(Photo : Master Sgt. Patrick Nugent/Wikipedia) The F-111 Tactical Strike Aircraft of the General Dynamics Aerospace, which developed the F-16 Fighting Falcon years later, was made under the USAF and US Navy requirements in the '60s, that served well into the 1990s. F-111 Tactical Strike Aircraft called the Flying Pig It was developed with an emphasis on the medium-range, multi-purpose tactical strike aircraft, which came from the TFX (Tactical Fighter "X") with specifications from the Army and Navy. During the Cold War, the plane filled the niches of a smaller tactical strike bomber, electronic warfare, reconnaissance missions in then-Soviet Bloc territories, reported Airforce Technology.