Dogfights F4 Phantom II
Top Comments
Video Responses
All Comments (212)
-
Consider this; using the current duty aircraft (F-14,15,16,18) the F-5 Tiger and A-4 Skyhawk were, and are still used in the Aggressor Squadron(Top Gun) to simulate MiG flight characteristics because of their slippery design. YET, during the Viet-Nam war, the F-5/A-4 were used to drop bombs. What did they throw at the MiG's? A gun-less F4 Phantom. But, superior pilot training prevailed over the MiG's.
-
ahh, y'know, these new high-tech fighters dont have the rawness that classic fighters like the 50's or 60's have. the f105, f101, f102 f100, f104, f8, and the f4 have.
-
F-4 is the King !
-
1:24 And that good sir, would make an excellent picture.
-
@GreenRayStudio ROFL :D
-
Great sound track would be" My Little F4" by the Seatbelts
-
@discofishing Plus it just looks badass
-
@TheValKBawz Well, whatever. My point is, if the Germans prefer USA tech to its own, it would have ordered more American planes like F-15 or F16 but it didn't. I think the Luftwaffe flies the F-4 because it was available at the time when it did not have its own fighter aircraft yet. Since thousands were produced by the US, it was economical for the Germans to adopt them because they were NATO allies. So I think the F-4 was more a convenient choice at the time.
"The Triumph of Thrust Over Aerodynamics"
SCE2AUX 1 year ago 29
@AccordGTR If the Phantom was such a horrible weapons platform why did the USAF, USN, and USMC fly it? Why were there several different models? If the Phantom was so horrible, it would have been retired quickly like most of the century series aircraft and types of the early 50's. But it wasn't. That's because it was a great weapons platform. The F-4 pioneered the concept of multi-role tactical aircraft. It took retraining of the pilots to realize how effective a platform the Rhino actually was.
discofishing 5 months ago 7