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The F-4 Phantom Has the World’s Only Gun Kill at Supersonic Speed
With a top speed of Mach 2.2, the F-4’s defining characteristic was world-record speed. Can you name the most widely produced ...
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Why Was The F-4 Phantom Retired And What Was Its Top Speed?
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.
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An F-4 Phantom Has Crashed in Western Iran
In fact, one of Tehran’s F-4 Phantom ... the incident. The Navy’s quest for a new type of attack fighter airframe following World War II led to the development of the Phantom.
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QF-4 Aerial Target
The supersonic QF-4 is a reusable ... 1958, the Phantom II originally was developed for U.S. Navy fleet defense and entered service in 1961. The Air Force evaluated it as the F-110A Spectre ...