Tuesday 20 June 2017

McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II - Greek users

In 1971 the Hellenic Air Force bought some F-4E and RF-4E which were complemented by ex-Luftwaffe Phantoms and some more coming from the Air National Guard of the United States at the beginning of the 1990s. Various of the F-4E were upgraded to the F-4G wild weasel standard and were equipped with the air-to-ground missile AGM-88 Harm.
After the success of the German KWS program, on 11th August 1997 the German DASA company got the contract of updating 39 aircrafts for the Peace Icarus 2000 programme. The actualization included an AN/APG-65GY radar a honeywell H-764G navigation system combined with a laser inertial navigation system, global positioning system, a multitask modular Elbit System computer, LITENING targets pod and the capacity of firing AIM-120 AMRAAM and AGM-130 missiles.
They served with the Hellenic Air Force until 4th May 2017.










Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II#Greece
2. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters

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