{"id":357338,"date":"2026-01-28T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/true-f-4-phantom-long-range-supersonic-fighter\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:00:17","slug":"is-it-true-that-the-f-4-phantom-is-a-long-range-supersonic-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=357338","title":{"rendered":"Is It True That The F-4 Phantom Is A Long-Range Supersonic Fighter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was one of the most consequential fighter jets of the United States during the Cold War. Not only was it a bedrock of US Air Force air power, but also for the US Navy and Marines. The jet was one of the most capable fighter jets of its time and was as fast as modern fighter jets in the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> service today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a period the F-4 was the workhorse of US airpower able to fill many roles thanks to its large aircraft, range, and supersonic flight.<\/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":[396,628,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357338","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=357338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357339,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357338\/revisions\/357339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}