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The F-4 Phantom Flew Without a Gun Because Missiles Were Supposed to Make Dogfights Obsolete. Then Vietnam Put It Nose to Nose With Agile MiGs, Its Missiles Kept Failing, and the US Air Force Fix Was a Gun Pod

For American F-4 Phantom pilots, two ejections meant the end of their time behind the stick—not because of punishment, but because of the physical toll ejection takes on the body. Ejection forces exert an incredible amount of G forces on…