I love the F4s This is nice slow mo. But is Japan still using the Phantom's as regular air force, or is it their air national guard? I saw a poster of an F4 in flight coming strait on at the camera. Man, you talk about menacing. It's just all business. No wonder the North Vietnamese pilots in there MiG's were scared of these things.
According to Wikipedia the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (Japan doesn't have an air national guard) still flies some 73 Phantom IIs as multirole aircraft.
The NVA air force pilots likely weren't any more scared than their American counterparts, if the interviews with former Vietnamese jet pilots I've read are any indication. They knew they were at a disadvantage when fighting the much more numerous USAF planes, but still got on with the job. NV even produced a number of jet aces. And they didn't have to worry about ejecting over enemy territory.
"World's Largest distributor of MiG parts." At one point a dozen different countries operated the F4. South Korea still operates about 20 F4E's, Turkey currently has about 30 or so, Greece has over 30 still operational. And then of course there's Iran.
The video's music is awful, so I suggest you mute it and play Strauss' 'The Blue Danube' instead:
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I love the F4s This is nice slow mo. But is Japan still using the Phantom's as regular air force, or is it their air national guard? I saw a poster of an F4 in flight coming strait on at the camera. Man, you talk about menacing. It's just all business. No wonder the North Vietnamese pilots in there MiG's were scared of these things.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wikipedia the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (Japan doesn't have an air national guard) still flies some 73 Phantom IIs as multirole aircraft.
ReplyDeleteThe NVA air force pilots likely weren't any more scared than their American counterparts, if the interviews with former Vietnamese jet pilots I've read are any indication. They knew they were at a disadvantage when fighting the much more numerous USAF planes, but still got on with the job. NV even produced a number of jet aces. And they didn't have to worry about ejecting over enemy territory.
"World's Largest distributor of MiG parts." At one point a dozen different countries operated the F4. South Korea still operates about 20 F4E's, Turkey currently has about 30 or so, Greece has over 30 still operational. And then of course there's Iran.
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