This image shows the VF-51 “Screaming Eagles" marking option. ★Extensive research enabled this highly accurate kit recreation of the F-4B. ★Includes 2 sitting crew figures, 3 marking options, and masking stickers. ★Air-to-air missiles (AIM-7E Sparrow and AIM-9G/H Sidewinder) and two types of drop tanks are included. ★Different types of antennae and cockpit consoles can be chosen depending on the marking option selected. ★Choose between open and closed canopy, and extended and retracted refueling probe/boarding ladder. ★One-piece horizontal stabilizer right and left sides move in concert. ★Choose between folded and extended wingtips. ★J79-GE-8 engine nozzles, cockpit, and landing gear bays are realistically recreated. ★The parts breakdown offers ease of assembly. ★Exhaustive studies of the actual aircraft enabled this precise recreation of the distinctive form. This is a 1/48 scale plastic model assembly kit. After that, various kinds of F-4 aircraft were developed and some have even been in service with some countries for half a century. However, from Operation Linebacker in 1972 onward, F-4 deployment increased and it was operated for air-to-ground strikes. In 1965, two F-4Bs shot down two North Vietnamese MiG-17 each, but the most enemy kills in the early stages of the Vietnam War were carried out by the F-8. The F-4B's production started in 1961 and its delivery began with the Fighter Squadron VF-74. This aircraft equipped four each of AIM-7E Sparrows and AIM-9G/H Sidewinders, and was officially adopted as the F4H-1 in December 1958 (which was later renamed the F-4A). was employed, the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation continued to develop a two-seater interceptor with powerful dual engines. In 1952, the Navy desired a supersonic aircraft and while the F-8 Crusader produced by the Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. The F-4 Phantom II was operated by not only the Navy and Air Force in America, but also other countries on account of its long range and superlative loading capacity. The deployment of the F-4 Phantom II started in the early 1960s and over 5,000 were manufactured during its production run.
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