The U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff wants the service to develop an affordable, lightweight fighter to replace hundreds of aging F-16s and complement a small fleet of sophisticated F-35 stealth fighters. But an affordable, lightweight fighter is exactly what the F-35 was first conceived to be.
The F-111 is basically the 1960s version of the F-35 with all the development and teething problems it had lol. But it does look cool, and the ejection capsule was a nice Idea.
Depends what you want to do with it. If your goal is to start in Sydney and put a full weapons payload down in Jakata ASAP (and you're getting them a decade later after the issues are ironed out) its the type of aircraft you want