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The first Phantom air-to-air victory of the war took place on 9 April 1965 when an F-4B from VF-96 Fighting Falcons piloted by Lieutenant (junior grade) Terence M. Murphy and his RIO, Ensign Ronald Fegan, shot down a Chinese MiG-17. The Phantom was then shot down, probably by an AIM-7 Sparrow from one of its wingmen. [24]
On 4 September 1959, a specially modified Sukhoi Su-9 (designated T-431) set a record of 28,852 m (94,659 ft) using a zoom climb. On 6 December 1959, during the proving phase of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II , an early version of the aircraft (the XF4H-1) performed a zoom climb to 30,040 m (98,557 ft) as part of Operation "Top Flight".
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine, all-weather, supersonic stealth fighter aircraft.As a product of the United States Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, the aircraft was designed as an air superiority fighter, but also incorporates ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence capabilities.
F-104s of the 435 TFS on the Da Nang flightline – 1965 435th TFS F-104Cs over Southeast Asia, October 1966 435th Tactical Fighter Squadron Phantom II [note 1] A detachment operated under the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing detachment at Udorn RTAFB, Thailand, 5 Jun-c. 23 July 1966 It conducted air defense in Southeast Asia from, 12 October-20 ...
BattleTech Record Sheets are a series of record sheets for mecha and military vehicles. BattleTech Record Sheets 3025 & 3026 has 224 pages containing more than 200 records compiled from BattleTech Technical Readout: 3025 and BattleTech Technical Readout: 3026, and BattleTech Record Sheets 3055 & 3058 has 256 pages with 250 sheets compiled from BattleTech Technical Readout: 3055 and BattleTech ...
35th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-4D Phantom [note 3] In 1964, the 35th deployed to Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, as one of the first units to fight in Southeast Asia. It later moved to Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. The squadron also performed numerous deployments to Osan Air Base, Korea. [12]
The wing augmented intercept defense forces of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) from 1 January 1976 to 15 January 1979 and from 4 January 1982 to 5 April 1982. While awaiting delivery of McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles , the 60th Fighter Squadron conducted F-15 mission qualifications training for the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing ...
This set a record as the longest distance flown non-stop in the F-16. [4] The squadron dropped more than 2,000 tons of conventional munitions on strategic and tactical targets in Iraq and Kuwait during more than 1,000 daytime combat sorties while only two of their aircraft were damaged by enemy fire and none lost in combat.