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It depends on what you mean by "better?" Better at what? The fleet defense roll, where it's just a missileer like the USN originally wanted? Yes, it probably would have had better loiter capability. But, the question in and of itself is sort of nonsense, nothing personal. I say that, because without the F-111B, the F-14 wouldn't have been what it turned out to be. Grumman learned a lot about building variable geometry wing aircraft from the F-111B program. As a result, they knew how to make the structure lighter without all of the drawbacks of the F-111s design when they began work on the F-14. The weight wasn't as big of an issue, since even latter versions of the Tomcat were close in weight to the F-111B. Here's some good references for you.[URL unfurl="true"]https://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-complete-f-111b.html[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a547500.pdf[/URL]
It depends on what you mean by "better?" Better at what? The fleet defense roll, where it's just a missileer like the USN originally wanted? Yes, it probably would have had better loiter capability. But, the question in and of itself is sort of nonsense, nothing personal. I say that, because without the F-111B, the F-14 wouldn't have been what it turned out to be. Grumman learned a lot about building variable geometry wing aircraft from the F-111B program. As a result, they knew how to make the structure lighter without all of the drawbacks of the F-111s design when they began work on the F-14. The weight wasn't as big of an issue, since even latter versions of the Tomcat were close in weight to the F-111B. Here's some good references for you.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-complete-f-111b.html[/URL]
[URL unfurl="true"]https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a547500.pdf[/URL]
