{"id":992,"date":"2011-12-16T18:44:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=992"},"modified":"2019-07-22T18:21:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:21:02","slug":"usaf-f-4-phantom-ii-paint-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"USAF F-4 Phantom II paint schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its 30+ year career with the US Air Force, the F-4 Phantom II wore several distinctive paint schemes, unlike its  Navy brothers. They started out in the same scheme, though – Gull gray and white:<\/p>\n

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This scheme was still in use during the first months of the Vietnam War, but quickly replaced by the famous South-East Asian scheme of medium green, dark green and tan, with light gray lower surfaces. A “wraparound” version (green\/tan also on lower surfaces) existed as well. The SEA scheme remained in use into the 1980s.<\/p>\n

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The European One scheme replaced the tan of the SEA wraparound scheme with dark gray. As the name implies, this scheme was popular with USAF squadrons stationed in Europe.<\/p>\n

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Phantom squadrons tasked with air defense used a different scheme, ADC (air defense command) gray, an overall semi-gloss gray.<\/p>\n

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Late in their career, some Phantoms (especially the F-4G Wild Weasels) wore the Hill Gray scheme, which it shared with the “Teen” fighters F-15 and F-16.<\/p>\n

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Pictures are from Wikimedia Commons<\/a> and Defense Media Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In its 30+ year career with the US Air Force, the F-4 Phantom II wore several distinctive paint schemes, unlike its  Navy brothers. They started out in the same scheme, though – Gull gray and white: This scheme was still in use during the first months of the Vietnam War, but quickly replaced by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78],"tags":[77,79,53,76],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tech","tag-aviation","tag-coldwar","tag-history","tag-vietnam","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t