The F-4 was built to serve as a carrier-based interceptor for the U.S. Navy but would eventually be folded into both the U.S.

The only confirmed supersonic air-to-air gun kill is credited to a hotshot U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II pilot named Maj. Phil “Hands” Handley. Some airpower pundits consider guns—more ...

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 ...

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.

The F-4 Phantom was neither pretty nor elegant. But it did its job when so many other aircraft in history couldn’t.

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The F-4 Phantom, introduced in the '60s, is disappearing from air forces. It was once as versatile as the F-35, capable of air-to-air and ground missions.

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 ...

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Introducing the F-4 Phantom The F-4 was built to serve as a carrier-based interceptor for the U.S. Navy but would eventually be folded into both the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps force ...