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Phantom plane

It is the plane that the United States pledged to sell 50 planes or more to Israel, shortly before the President of the United States, President Johnson, left the presidency.
Its name in English is Phantom II, which means ghost, and this plane stands for F4. It is a two-engine, two-seat fighter, and is now manufactured by the McDonnell Company in St. Louis. Louis in the United States, and manufactures them for the US Navy, the US Air Force, the US Marine Corps, as well as the Royal Air Force, the British Royal Navy, and the Imperial Iranian Air Force. This information is reliable until the end of March 1968.

Phantom descriptions:

This plane has many versions, or if you wish, copies.
According to the different purposes intended for it.
But the Phantom II can be described in general as follows, and we will limit ourselves to what is closest to the understanding of the non-specialist reader.

What is noteworthy about this Phantom plane is that it has set records in many experiments since December 1959. The speed reached 48,1606 miles per hour (2,585 kilometers), that is, more than twice the speed of sound. In height, it reached 98,556 feet (30,040 metres).
As for the altitude, it rose to 3,000 meters (9,840 feet) in 34.50 seconds, and to 30,000 meters (98,400 feet) in 6 minutes and 11.43 seconds.

This Phantom plane has two engines and two seats, as we mentioned. In the event of imminent danger, the pilot throws his seat out of the plane and lands with a parachute.

Its engines are two Turbojet engines, and the fuel is in the wings, in addition to six other fuel tanks in the fuselage, which can accommodate two thousand gallons of fuel (7,569 litres).

This is not a precaution taken for 600 gallons (2,270 liters) of fuel, which is placed in external tanks under the fuselage of the plane. Two quantities, each of 370 gallons (1,400 liters), are placed under the wings.

- Phantom weapon:

As for weapons, the plane can carry about 16,000 pounds (7,250 kilograms) of nuclear or regular ammunition, whether bombs or missiles, and it is carried in five places under the fuselage and under the wings.

Let us take, for example, a load consisting of 18 bombs, each weighing 750 pounds, fifty mines, each weighing 680 pounds, 11 bombs weighing 1,000 pounds each, 7 smoke bombs, 150 gallons of napalm in its bombs, 4 missiles directed from the air to the ground, and 15 packages of missiles directed from the air to the ground.

- Phantom flight field:

The fastest speed of the plane flying horizontally and with its external loads is more than twice the speed of sound.

Its combat range, if used as an interceptor aircraft, is a radius of 900 miles, or 1,450 kilometers. Its range, if used to attack land, is a radius of 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers).