The F-4 Phantom set a whopping sixteen world speed and altitude records between 1959 and 1962; five of those records would ...

Warrior of the Vietnam War: The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was a highly versatile and successful third-generation fighter jet used extensively by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.

and shot down more enemy aircraft than any other fighter in the Vietnam War. In 1961, it flew 1,604 mph setting the world speed record. Although the Pentagon retired the F-4 Phantom in 1996 ...

The F-4 Phantom II, universally known by the U.S ... on to become the platform of the U.S. Air Force and Navy during the ...