PAC JF-17B Thunder of Pakistan Air Force

F-14 Tomcat going vertical and fully loaded with AIM-54 Phoenix.

The AIM-54 Phoenix is an American radar guided, long range air-to-air missile (AAM), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, its only operational launch platform.

The Phoenix was the United States' only long-range air-to-air missile. The combination of Phoenix missile and the AN/AWG-9 guidance radar was the first aerial weapons system that could simultaneously engage multiple targets. Due to its active radar tracking, the brevity code "Fox Three" was used when firing the AIM-54.

Both the missile and the aircraft were used by Iran and the United States Navy. In US service both are now retired, the AIM-54 Phoenix in 2004 and the F-14 in 2006. They were replaced by the shorter-range AIM-120 AMRAAM, employed on the F/A-18 Hornet and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet—in its AIM-120D version, the latest version of the AMRAAM just matches the Phoenix's maximum range.

F-4 Phantom drops bombs during a bombing exercise.

F-7P of the Pakistan Air Force

F-4 Phantom of USAF drop bombs on Vietnam

F-7P of the Pakistan Air Force

PAF B-57 Canberra with A-5 Fantan, 2x Mirages, and RT-33 in formation

JF-17A Thunder of the Pakistan Air Force

Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) F-4 Phantom II with leading edge flaps extended

JF-17 Thunder Block II of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF)

US Air Force B-1 Lancer over Afghanistan

Two airmen of the 362nd Fighter Group with a P-47 Thunderbolt nicknamed ‘Shirley Jane III’

Lockheed C-130 Hercules specially modified for Operation Credible Sport to land in a stadium and rescue hostages in Iran in 1980.