Key Points - The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, an iconic American fighter from the Vietnam era, remains the most numerous jet in Iran's air force, with around 63 still in service. -Iran acquired ...

Looking more like a killer than a speedster, the large twin-engine jet built to sweep skies clear of enemy MiGs and deliver large payloads of bombs would also record many “firsts.” Out of a ...

The finished Phantom served as proof of concept that a jet could indeed operate from an aircraft carrier. Yet the Phantom itself underperformed. The McDonnell FH Phantom was the first purely ...

More than a decade ago, a Raptor was able to stop two enemy jets without firing a single missile. Widely considered to be the most advanced fifth-generation fighter jet across the world, the ...

In 2005, the U.S. Air Force accepted a special new jet fighter into its inventory: the stealthy F-22 Raptor. This was the world's first 5th-generation fighter. Developers and the military have been ...