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

In one of the strangest aerial clashes of the Cold War, Israeli F-4 Phantom jets went head-to-head with North Korean MiG fighters - far from either nation’s skies. How did this happen? Why were North ...

Air Force Maj. Robert Lodge decided not to eject from his stricken plane over North Vietnam to make sure the enemy never ...

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, ...