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    The fighter that refuses to step out of the ring...

    Still serving, some even in the hands of the enemy, my favorite fighter refuses to be counted out...
    The swan song of the Israeli Phantom force came during Israel’s 1982 intervention in the War in Lebanon, when Phantoms — escorted by new F-15s and F-16s — wiped out all 30 of Syria’s SAM batteries in the Bekaa Valley in one day without losing a single plane in Operation Mole Cricket 19.
    Over 5,000 were built by McDonnell-Douglas, and some are still mothballed around the world faithfully awaiting the call to action......Ben

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    We had a squadron of them here in town for years. The only thing I remember about them is that they are LOUD.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    The only thing I remember about them is that they are LOUD.
    And smoky!...You would think that would make it hard for them to sneak up on anyone, but at Mach 2.3 by the time the bad guys knew they're in the neighborhood, they're already dead......Ben

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    I still have some of the small hand tools my oldest brother used while building the F-4 Phantom in St. Louis. Him and a friend thought that if they worked at building them it would keep them from being drafted, didn't work.
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