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The F-4 had seen better days 
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...German air force to bid 'Pharewell' to last F-4Fs
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The F-4 had seen better days
Better days Yah. What about the smelly F-4 cockpits? Was it the F-4's better day?
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Expect Persian Flame in 3...2...1...
You guys could send them some Saudi Attar scent!
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Germany will retire its last operational McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom IIs on 29 June, with the veteran type's duties having been assumed by Eurofighter units.
After almost 40 years of service, the final interceptors will be retired during a decommissioning event to be staged at the Luftwaffe's Wittmund air base.
The final German examples are operated by the air force's JG 71 "Richthofen" squadron, which was also the first to begin flying the type, in March 1974. Delivered in 1973, its first F-4F, 37+01, received a special livery for the occasion.
A total of 263 Phantoms were acquired by Germany, the air force says, including 88 in the RF-4E reconnaissance configuration, from 1971.
Flightglobal's MiliCAS database shows Germany's retirement of the Phantom will reduce the global frontline fleet of the type to 431 aircraft, operated by the air forces of Egypt, Greece, Iran, Japan, South Korea and Turkey. The US Air Force also has more than 150 examples, which have been adapted for use as QF-4 aerial targets.
PICTURE: German air force to bid 'Pharewell' to last F-4Fs
So how many do they have and will Turkey going to buy them???
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And here we...... GO!
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is about time to send this babies to their pension.
german defense ministry is under constant pressure for spending the money in a very inefficient way. after the eurohawk debacle (500 millions euro for development of a drone which didnt got the approval from the aviation authority) and the order of helicopter for federal navy which are the wrong ones for the navy requirements and the cost explosion for the new transport AC and also the eurofighter i ask myself why germany did not purchased cheaper, well tested and first rate US weapon systems.
german policy (also defense policy) isnt driven be logical thoughts but by a megalomaniac eu-nationalism.
the finaicla problems were one of the reasons why the high maintance f-4 were in service for such a long time.
german defense ministry is under constant pressure for spending the money in a very inefficient way. after the eurohawk debacle (500 millions euro for development of a drone which didnt got the approval from the aviation authority) and the order of helicopter for federal navy which are the wrong ones for the navy requirements and the cost explosion for the new transport AC and also the eurofighter i ask myself why germany did not purchased cheaper, well tested and first rate US weapon systems.
german policy (also defense policy) isnt driven be logical thoughts but by a megalomaniac eu-nationalism.
the finaicla problems were one of the reasons why the high maintance f-4 were in service for such a long time.
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