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Iran operates the world’s largest F-4 Phantom fleet, the remnant of 225 jets the Shah bought in the 1960s and ’70s in a buildup...
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Iran operates the world’s largest F-4 Phantom fleet, the remnant of 225 jets the Shah bought in the 1960s and ’70s in a buildup...
For F-4 Phantom crews, the saying went that two ejections ended a flying career, not as punishment but because the G-forces of the seat...
The Shah took delivery of 225 F-4 Phantoms beginning in 1968; 166 were still on strength when Iraq invaded in 1980, and FlightGlobal counted...
Mitsubishi's F-15J was built without nukes or America's full jamming suite. Now the Japan Super Interceptor program gives 98 of the 1980s Eagles an...
Boeing and Israel rebuilt the F-4 Phantom for more thrust and range. $12 million a jet. Neither Super Phantom entered production.
The mission was supposed to launch in daylight. Water was over Graves' ankles on the ramp at Ubon, so Killer flight went at 11pm...
Al Winkles and his navigator scrambled from RAF Leuchars expecting a routine 30-minute intercept. Instead the two Tu-95s turned south, and the Phantom followed...
The US military flew thousands of F-4 Phantoms over the years. And yet, many experts forget, Iran bought 225 of these tough warplanes and...
France embargoed Israel in 1967 and took its main aircraft supplier away overnight. By 1974 the Israeli Ministry of Defence was asking Washington for...
The kill chain ran through the rear cockpit: the Combat Tree interrogator, the radar lock, the Sparrow geometry — and the Air Force gave...