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The F-4 Phantom II Has a Message for Any Air Force on Earth

The F-4 Phantom II began as a U.S. Navy fleet defender and became the West’s do-everything jet: fighter, bomber, ...
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How Iran’s F-4 Phantom Fleet Survives Sanctions and Outlasts Modern Rivals Through Engineering Ingenuity

“The Phantom still can carry a punch as a bomber,” noted Business Insider in 2014, referencing an aircraft that took to the skies for the first time in 1958. But in 2025, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 ...