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Armament Projects: The Japanese F-4 Case, 1960 to 1990. Technology Transfer in the Cold War Era in the Pacific Region

Origination of ‘McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II’

The ‘McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II’ is known as the most developed marines’ aircraft, which was originally initiated and launched by the McDonnell Aircraft for the USA’s navy. Being the most influential and powerful aircraft, it is also usually called a fighter-bomber and supersonic jet interceptor aircraft. As soon as it entered in the service in the year of 1960 with the U.S. Navy its prominence started increasing in the military world. According to military factory,

it is arguably the finest combat fighter invented in the 20^th century. It was mostly used at the end of the World War II, and was produced in wide range. It became an all-performer when it began to serve USAF, USMC and USN. Its prominence remained same from 1960 to 1990 as it served as the aircraft for America. Later on,

it was also used during Vietnam conflict and was further overstretched to serve in the ‘Persian Gulf War’ that took place in 1991. However, it was originally designed to save the people from a Tornado; as a matter of fact, not just a tornado, but at the initial level it was envisioned as an ‘All-weather attack platform’ and began as a study project of the McDonnell Company (Garza and Morelli, 2003).

Although, the aircraft was originally invented as a ‘missile-armed fleet defender,’ eventually over the time, F-4 Phantom grew into a multi-service performing aircraft. The Phantom could take on a number of mixtures of fuel tanks, bombs, missiles and rocked pods whenever needed. It proved as a successful air defense aircraft in the Wild Weasel, and F-4 Phantom was equipped with unique kind of anti-radiation missiles (King and Nowack, 2003). …