{"id":9278,"date":"2011-02-22T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9278"},"modified":"2011-02-21T02:50:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T07:50:30","slug":"f-4-phantom-continues-air-force-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/f-4-phantom-continues-air-force-service\/","title":{"rendered":"F-4 Phantom Continues Air Force Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people don&#8217;t realize the US Air Force still flies F-4s.\u00a0 The <em>Phantoms<\/em> were well known for their anti-SAM role in <em>Desert Storm<\/em>, though they made their mark in history during Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>The 82nd Aerial Target Squadron is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123237870\">using the F-4 to tow target banners<\/a> for aerial gunnery practice.\u00a0 Unmanned QF-4s continue to fly in a variety of other full-scale target applications.<\/p>\n<p>Lacking the sleek and aerodynamic look of many other aircraft, the F-4 used to be cited as proof that with enough thrust, you can get a brick to fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people don&#8217;t realize the US Air Force still flies F-4s.\u00a0 The Phantoms were well known for their anti-SAM role in Desert Storm, though they made their mark in history during Vietnam. The 82nd Aerial Target Squadron is now using the F-4 to tow target banners for aerial gunnery practice.\u00a0 Unmanned QF-4s continue to fly in a variety of other [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,309,5285,2,1410,940,53],"class_list":["post-9278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-f-4","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-phantom","tag-qf-4","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}