50 years of the F-4 Phantom in Turkish AF service
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Tony1963 said:
They’re celebrating 40 years with an airframe we moved on from 32 years ago!
The USAF only stopped flying them 8 years ago in a 2nd line role......and they were flying the RF-4G Wild Weasel's in combat missions in the Gulf War in '91 when we were announcing the retirement of it..!Tony1963 said:
Geoff-70zwf said:
What a beautiful piece of aviation history. Up there with the BAE Lightening and Harrier as the greatest planes. .
BAeLightning
it was never a BAe Lightning, it was a BAC Lightning, although the pre-production aircraft and first handful of production F1 were EE.aeropilot said:
Tony1963 said:
They’re celebrating 40 years with an airframe we moved on from 32 years ago!
The USAF only stopped flying them 8 years ago in a 2nd line role......and they were flying the RF-4G Wild Weasel's in combat missions in the Gulf War in '91 when we were announcing the retirement of it..!Love the F4.
I think Greece v.recently retired their F4's i believe after a very long service. Every summer would watch them fly over the Islands. You could spot them easily with the smoke trail.
Sadly several had been lost over the years. Latest was in 2023 on very low level flying exercises. Both pilots died.
Greece now waiting on x18 F-35's
I think Greece v.recently retired their F4's i believe after a very long service. Every summer would watch them fly over the Islands. You could spot them easily with the smoke trail.
Sadly several had been lost over the years. Latest was in 2023 on very low level flying exercises. Both pilots died.
Greece now waiting on x18 F-35's
Southerner said:
aeropilot said:
Tony1963 said:
They’re celebrating 40 years with an airframe we moved on from 32 years ago!
The USAF only stopped flying them 8 years ago in a 2nd line role......and they were flying the RF-4G Wild Weasel's in combat missions in the Gulf War in '91 when we were announcing the retirement of it..!What have we got that's actually homegrown? Do we build our own fighter jets, whether under licence or designed from scratch? Do we sell fighter jets we build here to other countries? We participate in lots of joint efforts, we provide lots of technical advice, including to the TAI Kaan above, but our government is utterly shocking at utilising our own expertise and invests nothing in the future of our military. Erdoğan is a world class dick who's taken the country back decades in terms of civil liberties, equality and lots of ther stuff, and Turkey got kicked out of the F35 programme for buying the S400 air defence systems, but their military seems to be in a decent shape.
PS They're celebrating 50 years with the F4, not 40.
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