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Mach 2 F-4 Phantom II Fighter Has a Message for Every Air Force on Earth

The F-4 Phantom II was a record-setting, hard-hitting icon—but not without headaches. -Its sheer size hurt dogfight agility ...
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Mitsubishi F-4 EJ Kai: The American Phantom II Jet Powered Up Like an Anime Hero

If you're of a certain age, you can't help but draw parallels between the real world and our favorite anime. It helps when you're talking about a jet fighter developed by the Americans before the ...
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Operation Bolo: The F-4 Phantom Gets Revenge in Vietnam

The F-4 Phantom: The plane went to war in Vietnam and made some serious history, as we explain below. In 1966, the U.S. Air Force was frustrated in Vietnam. Pilots from North Vietnam, flying ...
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F-4 Phantoms & Vietnamese MiG-21s Face Off in Aerial Dogfight

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. It's April 1972, and a team of F-4 Phantoms are on a hunting mission, high above the skies of Vietnam. But they'll need to be careful: the Russian ...