F-4

Last month, Japan moved a step closer to buying a new generation of jet fighters to replace the F-4, after it accepted bids by three of the world's biggest defense contractors for what is expected to be a deal valued at several billion dollars.

Japan PM Warns on Defense Chester Dawson 2011

Among the aircraft on display were F-2 and F-4 fighter jets.

Japan PM Warns on Defense Chester Dawson 2011

The veteran said that Crumley claimed that, before his capture, he was promoted to warrant officer and flew 500 combat missions in F-4 Phantom jets.

RONALD L CRUMLEY 2010

Claims F-4 pilot in Viet-Nam; shot down and held captive for many months before escaping; then become a Navy

Heroes or Villains? 2010

On June 8, 1972, his F-4 Phantom was hit just over the border in North Vietnam.

JOHN PATRCIK MURPHY 2010

The new fighter will replace Japan's aging squads of F-4 Phantom fighters, made by McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing.

Japan Defense Chief Urges China Ties Chester Dawson 2011

While an excellent aircraft, the F-4 was in many ways the apotheosis of the fighter-bomber, too heavy and lacking the agility to fill the air-superiority role.

Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale 2010

The F-35 will replace the Japanese Air Self Defense Force's 70 aging F-4 fighters made by McDonnell Douglas, which is now part of Boeing.

Japan Picks Lockheed for Fighter-Jet Upgrade Chester Dawson 2011

We're told it was their years of training, practice, expertise, experience and education, starting all the way back at the Air Force Academy when they flew F-4 fighter jets and gliders (think about that contrast).

Floating planes and the economy frankwu 2009

PH, 3 tours in Nam, 70-73, in Briar Patch - operating in a "Shadow Force", attached to VMFA-333 (Trip-Trey), F-4 fighter jet squadron.

P 3 - Q 2010