{"id":74117,"date":"2024-06-27T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-things-to-know-about-final-days-f-4-phantom-ii\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T09:00:11","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-the-final-days-of-the-us-f-4-phantom-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=74117","title":{"rendered":"5 Things To Know About The Final Days Of The US F-4 Phantom II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The legendary F-4 Phantom II&#8217;s days are finally coming to a close, and soon, only Turkey and Iran will operate them. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-4-phantom-fighter-jet-commercial-success-analysis\/\">F-4 Phantom is generally regarded as one of its era&#8217;s best supersonic fighter jets<\/a>. When the F-4 Phantom was produced, the idea was a fighter jet could run, but it couldn&#8217;t hide and had a max speed of Mach 2.23. Today, fighter jets like <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-is-f-35-slower-than-60-year-old-f-4-phantom\/\">the stealthy F-35 are slower (Mach 1.6)<\/a> and built with the idea that a fighter jet can&#8217;t run but can hide.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-4 Phantom&#8217;s days are entering their twilight as soon as only two countries are left operating them.<\/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":[396,628,408,412,5043,3509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-history","category-military","category-operators","category-retirement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74117","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=74117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74118,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74117\/revisions\/74118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}