RE: My say

“Glad we sorted this out – I’d much rather have you for a fellow member than an opponent.”

We don’t become opponents over one issue… 🙂

I don’t even consider posters like Vortex or PhantomII opponents even though we do disagree on quite a few issues. There are also many issues we agree upon… ie The Death Penalty, plus I do like the Phantom… it was an excelent aircraft in its time, and with upgrades is not a bad aircraft now. (With AWACS support and AMRAAM I would suggest that its higher top speed would make it a better interceptor than the slower F-18… any model F-18… the only area that lets down the F-4 is its age and increasing maintainence costs.)
I am not of course suggesting that the US should reintroduce it into service }> but giving credit where credit is due.