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Yak- 28 Firebar vs F-4 Phantom
The two have a lot in common -
two big engines with after burners
Crew of two in tandem - pilot in front and navigator radar operator back
Top speed of mach 1.95 for Yak and 2.27 for Phantom. Climb of 40 k feet pee min for both.
The Yak take two IR and two Radar guided missiles the Phantom 4 IR missiles and 4 Radar missiles.
The handling and rurn rate of both was not something to write home because both are heavy 20 ton for the Yak and 25 for the Phantom.
The Yak was not delivered to any country outside of USSR but the Phantom was to many countries.
The Yak was retired in the mid 80s while the Phantom is still used by some countries and only late was retired in Japan.
Russian fighters were almost maintainance free and the Phantom required heavy one ...
As for the models the Yak is from Hobby model and Phantom from Academy of young ukraines builders . The scale is 1:48.
Yair
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