The F-4 Phantom II began as a U.S. Navy fleet defender and became the West’s do-everything jet: fighter, bomber, ...

The McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II is one of the most iconic aircraft of the early Cold War period. -It was designed at a time when supersonic flight was still in its experimental period in the ...

The plane was officially known as the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Moniker-wise it was the “sequel” (so to speak) to the original Phantom, that being the short-lived 1940s vintage FH Phantom, ...

Okay then, so why exactly does the IRIAF still have the battle-proven but now oh-so-antiquated Phantom in its fleet? (Ditto for the fourth-g eneration F-14 Tomcat?) Well, a big part of it is the fact ...