The F-4 Phantom II began flying fleet defense for the U.S. Navy in 1958 but wasn't used by the Air Force until 1963 (as the F-4C). The two-seat, twin-engine tactical jet fighter bomber was built ...

Like the F-35, the F-4 became the prime aircraft of the air force (which ... of its F-4s next year in favor of the F-35 stealth fighter. Phantom fans from all over the world attended.

The F-4 Phantom is one of the most iconic and versatile fighter jets in aviation history. Born in the Cold War era, this twin ...

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a legendary aircraft — an icon of the Vietnam War and the archetype of the third-generation jet fighter designs that entered service in the 1960s.

“The Phantom has become, arguably, the most important fighter aircraft of the second half of the twentieth century,” aviation historian Robert Dorr writes in his 1989 book, The McDonnell F-4 ...

GROVE, Okla. — An F-4 Phantom fighter jet that was accumulating dust at an Air Force hangar in New Mexico now has a purpose at its new home in Northeast Oklahoma. Project coordinators Beverly ...

Japan has operated the F-4 Phantom II fighter jet since the late 1960s, with at least one plane still flying that's almost 50 years old. The F-4 Phantom is being replaced by the F-35A Joint Strike ...

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.

Tensions between Iran and Israel are on the rise after a Hamas political leader was killed in Tehran Iran has more F-4 Phantom IIs than any other country in the world The F-4 Phantom II made its ...

(Video: Michelle Lee/The Washington Post) The F-4 Phantom, a state-of-the-art fighter in the 1960s and the main U.S. aircraft used in the Vietnam War, was retired in the United States in 1996.