Multirole fighter-bomber ·First flight 1958 · In service 1961
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was the definitive Western fighter of the 1960s and '70s, a big, powerful, twin-engine two-seater flown by the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps at once — a rare feat.
Fast and immensely versatile as fighter, bomber and reconnaissance platform, over five thousand were built, and the smoke-trailing Phantom served a dozen nations for decades.
