{"id":144454,"date":"2024-10-28T03:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-navy-f-4-1st-called-f-110a-us-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T03:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T17:30:13","slug":"a-fighter-by-any-other-name-why-was-the-us-navy-f-4-phantom-1st-called-an-f-110a-spectre-by-the-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=144454","title":{"rendered":"A Fighter By Any Other Name: Why Was The US Navy F-4 Phantom 1st Called An F-110A Spectre By The US Air Force?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The F-4 Phantom II was one of the most successful mid-Cold War American             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028652\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-things-to-know-about-final-days-f-4-phantom-ii\/\" >remains in limited service as it finds itself in its twilight years<\/a><\/span>. It was developed as an all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber for the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span>. But the F-4 Phantom II was not always the Phantom &#8211; before 1962 it was called the F4H-1 and the F-110A Spectre &#8211; but why did it change its name(s)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before 1962, the Phantom was known by two different names but a change in naming conventions saw it designated the F-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,628,412,423,1328,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144455,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144454\/revisions\/144455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}