H.A.F. F-4E Phantom

It is a two-seat, twin-engine, multiple role fighter, predominantly used for interception and reconnaissance missions (RF-4E). It is yet another US airplane and production deliveries for the USAF began in November 1963. US F-4s were tested in battle in the Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1973 and 1982 as well as in the Vietnam War and suffered heavy casualties as dozens of them were downed by Soviet SAM (Surface to Air Missiles). The Phantom entered service with the HAF in 1972 under the arms programme "Peace Icarus". Although it is a second-generation aircraft, 36 Hellenic Phantoms have been upgraded with advanced electronics (programme "Peace Icarus 2000"), extending their operational life. They are based in Andrabida air base (117 Combat Wing, 338 and 339 Squadrons with call signs "Aris" and "Aias" respectively) and in Larissa air base (110 Combat Wing, 337 and 348 Squadrons "Ghost" and "Eyes" respectively). After the upgrade programme, all the Hellenic F-4Es wear the "Aegean Ghost" camouflage while all The Hellenic RF-4Es wear the "Vietnam" camouflage.
It is a two-seat, twin-engine, multiple role fighter, predominantly used for interception and reconnaissance missions (RF-4E). It is yet another US airplane and production deliveries for the USAF began in November 1963. US F-4s were tested in battle in the Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1973 and 1982 as well as in the Vietnam War and suffered heavy casualties as dozens of them were downed by Soviet SAM (Surface to Air Missiles). The Phantom entered service with the HAF in 1972 under the arms programme "Peace Icarus". Although it is a second-generation aircraft, 36 Hellenic Phantoms have been upgraded with advanced electronics (programme "Peace Icarus 2000"), extending their operational life. They are based in Andrabida air base (117 Combat Wing, 338 and 339 Squadrons with call signs "Aris" and "Aias" respectively) and in Larissa air base (110 Combat Wing, 337 and 348 Squadrons "Ghost" and "Eyes" respectively). After the upgrade programme, all the Hellenic F-4Es wear the "Aegean Ghost" camouflage while all The Hellenic RF-4Es wear the "Vietnam" camouflage.
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American two-seat, twin-engined supersonic long-range all-weather fighter-bomber originally developed for the U.S. Navy by McDonnell Aircraft.

The Phantom remained in production from 1958 to 1981, with a total of 5,195 built, and was used by the U.S. military from 1960 to 1996, serving with the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, and the US Navy.It was used extensively by all three U.S. services operating in Vietnam, ending the war as the principal air superiority fighter for both the Navy and Air Force, as well as being important in the ground-attack and reconnaissance roles.

The Phantom continued to form a major part of U.S. military air power throughout the 1970s and 80s, being gradually replaced by more modern aircraft such as the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon in the U.S. Air Force and the F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet in the U.S. Navy. It remained in service in the reconnaissance and Wild Weasel roles in the 1991 Gulf War.

The Phantom was also operated by the armed forces of 11 other nations. Israeli Phantoms saw extensive combat in numerous Arab--Israeli conflicts, while Iran used its large fleet of Phantoms in the Iran--Iraq War. Phantoms remain in front line service with seven countries, and in use as an unmanned target in the U.S. Air Force

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[Ricardicus]

Wonderful footage proving that even after all these years the F4 is still one of the greatest fighter interceptors of all time. Great to know they're still being used so effectively by the Greek's, German's and Turk's. Nice F16 cockpit footage too.

[mpampis210isback]

F-16?

[Ricardicus]

If you look closely near the end of the video the cockpit footage is quite clearly from within an F-16. No F4 I've seen has a bubble canopy or such a wonderful unrestricted view from the cockpit.

[mpampis210isback]

check wings and seat.its a F-4

[patrinos13]

KOSTAS ILIAKIS-timi k doksa stous athanatous aetous mas.....

[Renard380]

Chicane - Saltwater, that music fits this video so well! :)

[aldopeer]

@Ricardicus: F-16 cockpit footage??? Check the wingtips, the Martin Baker seat, with the upper-ejection handles. Can't you see that this pilot is sitting 'in' the cockpit, instead of sitting 'on top of the plane', as it is the case with the F-16? Just look at the F-4 going high speed, low-level.... Isn't it a beauty, with those two mighty, smoking, superreliable,afterburning, General Electric J-79's? Phantoms for ever!!

[peristeris64]

ΤΟ ΠΡΩΤΟ ΑΕΡΟΣΚΑΦΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΕΡΓΑΣΘΗΚΑ!!!!117 ΠΤΕΡΥΓΑ ΜΑΧΗΣ,338 Μ.Δ.Β ΑΝΔΡΑΒΙΔΑ ΝΟΜΟΥ ΗΛΕΙΑΣ.ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ ΧΑΥΛΗΣ 33 Σ.Τ.Υ.Α WEAPON....1983 HMOYN EIΚΟΣΙ ΕΤΩΝ!!!

[noster88]

The US turns them into drones and uses them as practice targets. One country's fighter is another's tin can target.

[MegaVesper04]

11 countries still use these including the UK.

[typhoonginopilot]

h anabathmhsh egine sthn eab nwmizw...

[dimsp81]

Chicane-salt water

[117thWing]

Yup.

The ones trailing smoke are the old ones, mostly RF-4s. The others are F-4s upgraded and remodeled in Germany in 2005.

[Silentkill666]

The Greeks still use these?

[BillyJimmyLee]

50 xronon aeroskafos einai 50 xronon aeroskafos. Ekatommyria gia petama pisteyo.

[haf4e]

the legend