- F-4 is a multi-sensor tactical reconnaissance aircraft.
- Since this machine had much more capacity than previous fighter aircraft reconnaissance type, it became an all-weather type multi-sensor machine equipped with other electronic and infrared sensors of ordinary camera.
- RF-4E (model 98 LG) is produced with a fuselage that has implanted the RF-4C nose into the F-4E airframe of the type without the leading edge slat. Unit 1 produced the first flight on September 15, 1970 And all 150 machines were exported to Western countries, exported to West Germany, Japan, Israel, Iran, Turkey and Greece.
- Air Self Defense Force ordered 14 aircraft in April 1973 as a successor to RF-86F, received all the aircraft in March 1975 and launched the 501 reconnaissance squadron at the Marigoti Base in Ibaraki prefecture.
- During the eruption of Usu volcano in 2000, it is also active in gathering information at the time of disaster, such as conducting a reconnaissance from the sky.
- Decal sets a special mark machine released from the mark of the Air Self Defense Force Reconnaissance Squadron No. 501 Squadron in 1994 war competition.
- [Blue Dragon] [White Tiger] [Xuan] [Suzaku] [Kirin] is a design with a motif.
