More than four decades later, these American-made platforms still serve Iran’s Air Force. In fact, one of Tehran’s F-4 Phantom jets recently crashed in Kabudrahang, Hamedan. Images of the ...

The only confirmed supersonic air-to-air gun kill is credited to a hotshot U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II pilot named Maj. Phil “Hands” Handley. Some airpower pundits consider guns—more ...

Information about the Iran-Iraq air war is difficult to come by. It is impossible to tabulate, for example, how many air-to-air victories were scored by Iranian F-14s because air force records ...