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 F-4 Phantom was capable of hitting Mach 2.23. While it was a capable fighter, the final examples were retired in 1997 due ...

Gun Success Necessitated by Missile Failures. One of the ironies of then-Maj. Handley’s gun kill being scored at the controls of an F-4 Phantom is the fact that the initial versions of the ...

The F-4 Phantom was neither pretty nor elegant. ... By 1972, the Navy’s Top Gun training program enabled Navy F-4s to achieve a 13:1 kill ratio. Nonetheless, ...

The F-4 Phantom was gradually phased out of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, replaced with the F-14 Tomcat, F/A-18 Hornet, F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon.The last F-4s left U.S ...

The F-4’s rear cockpit was there for a backseater to handle what was sure to be a heavy information load. For the air-to-air encounters of tomorrow, gunnery was supplanted by radar-guided missiles.

The F-4 Phantom is a twin-engine multi-role fighter built with two General Electric J-79-GE-15 engines. Each power plant puts out 17,000 lbs of thrust, giving the Phantom a maximum speed of 1,473 ...

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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 ...