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The F-4 Phantom II Fighter Summed Up in 4 Words
The F-4 Phantom II, a large, twin-engine fighter from the 1950s, was a workhorse of Western air forces for decades, most ...
The F-4 Phantom was a fighter jet that entered service with the U.S. Navy in 1961 and eventually found its way to the Air Force two years later only for the Marine Corps to adopt it too. Four ...
The F-4 Phantom was capable of hitting Mach 2.23. While it was a capable fighter, the final examples were retired in 1997 due to age and design flaws.
With this list of black marks, the Phantom should have been consigned to one of those Top 10 Worst Aircraft lists. But just how much affection the “Flying Brick” had earned was demonstrated ...
An F-4 makes a practice landing on the USS Midway on June 15, 1963. Phantom pilot John Chesire flew combat missions from Midway during the Vietnam War.
With a top speed of Mach 2.2, the F-4’s defining characteristic was world-record speed.
[Photo] Iranian F-4 Phantom (as one of those taunted by a U.S. F-22 Raptor in a Top Gun-like encounter) ...
SEOUL, South Korea — Some of the last F-4 Phantom IIs still flying released their final ordnance during live-fire drills this month, three weeks before South Korea retires the fighters after 55 ...
The F-4 Phantom is one of the most iconic jets in the history of the U.S. Armed Forces. Here's everything that made it such a great fighter.
Iran has more F-4 Phantom IIs than any other country in the world The F-4 Phantom II made its debut in the Vietnam War and has proved and effective fighter jet over the years ...
The Japanese F-4EJ was therefore like the evolution into Pikachu. But the F-4EJ Kai? That was like the full Raichu, the American McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II's ultimate evolution.
DCS World recently released the F-4 Phantom, and two rubes took it for a test drive. What if Top Gun was a buddy comedy?