In a nutshell, the General Dynamics F-111 variable geometry (swiveling) wing underwing stores mounted outboard of the cuff-(to visualize-wearing a long-sleeve cuffed shirt, extend your arm and hand horizontally, palm down, then swivel your hand horizontally at your wrist about the cuff) had to either swivel in the opposite degree of the wing swivel to remain aligned with the fuselage axis or be fixed in alignment with the fuselage axis with the wing unswept. A lousy, long sentence, but it gets even more complex. The F-111 had two swiveling launchers rails outboard of the cuff, and two even farther outboard that did NOT swivel of the eight underwing stores.
There was some variation among the many F-111 versions in the launcher stores, but at least some had to swivel opposite of the wing swivel to keep the aerodynamic alignment of the ordnance. So, some ordnance could only be launched from an un-swiveled wings' configuration, then the two inboard stores could be launched from any wing sweep configuration. In the FB-111 bomber, for example, with longer wings, the maximum ordnance load was six nuclear bombs, three big ones under each wing.
The lesson learned by Grumman who cooperated with General Dynamics on a F-111B model development starting in 1965 for the US Navy (the program was scrapped by the US Congress in mid-1968) easily led to the F-14 TOMCATs' design having ALL wing stores INBOARD of the variable sweep wings' cuffs-(Grumman called the 'cuff' a glove) . The F-14 carried a total of two ordnance pylons INBOARD of the wing glove and had four weapon recesses in the fuselage belly. The F-14 was designed for and could carry six AGM-54 PHOENIX missiles, slaved from AWG-9 radar, with four in-fuselage belly recesses and two mounted inboard of the wing's glove-that is to say one on each wing inboard of that glove.
The F-14 variable sweep wings were computer controlled by a Mach Sweep Programmer based on speed, angle of attack and banking inputs, to name a few. The Phoenix missiles were cork-insulated and thermally conditioned with coolanol at altitude, a different complexity. It should be noted here that the F-14 was the *ONLY combat aircraft to ever carry, and launch Phoenix missiles.
*A qualification: the last sentence is true, but I should point out that a modified test and evaluation NF-4 Phantom DID successfully launch an AGM-54 Phoenix missile on Point Mugu's sea test range PRIOR to full-scale missile production contract, which occurred in lots of 60 missiles each with lot sample testing on the sea test range before release to the fleet of each missile lot.
The FB-111 had a cantilever shoulder wing, NACA 63 series airfoil, that could sweepback from 16 degrees to 72 degrees, 30 minutes. Jarry Hydraulics provided the wing-actuating jacks. Airbrake/lift dampers above the wing act as spoilers. The wings also had full-span leading edge-slats with variable camber.There were full-span double-slotted trailing edge flaps. GE built the complex flight control system.
The F-14 had variable-geometry wings with 20 degrees of forward sweep in the fully-forward sweep and 68 degrees of sweep when fully-swept back. This could oversweep to 75 degrees for aircraft carrier stowage. Wings' sweep position was automatic from that computer but could be manually over-ridden. The pivot points of what Grumman calls the "glove" ( maybe a "distancing" from the 'cuff' nomenclature?) were 8 feet, 11 inches from the fuselage center line. Note that the short, moveable part of the F-14 wing was light titanium alloy. The fixed-wing portion small canard surfaces called glove vanes swing outward as the outer wing's sweep increases. The upper surfaces of the wings had spoilers. Trailing edge control surfaces were nearly full-span. Leading edge had slats. There were also Sparrow missiles that could be carried and the GE M-61A1 Vulcan 20 mm multi-barrel gun was mounted in port side of the fuselage.
I thank all who were puzzled by this quiz.