터키공군의 최신 팬텀기 터미네이터

터키는 이스라엘의 협조로 54대의 팬텀기를 현대화하여 F-4E 2020 Terminator로 취역시켰습니다.
이것은 이스라엘의 커나스2000을 바탕으로 기골을 보강하고 전자장비등을 업그레이드하여 AGM-142 팝아이 미사일을 운용할 수 있습니다.
터키군은 2020년까지 업그레이드 팬텀을 운용할 것으로 예상하고 있습니다.

The Turkish Air Force has received about 197 F-4Es and 40 RF-Es in eight batches from 1973 to 1994, including 40 aircraft which had been delivered as a return favor for the Turkish support of the UN Forces during the Gulf war in 1991.To augment the few surviving RF-4Es of the first batch of 1973, the TuAF received 32 operational former German Air Force RF-4Es. The TuAF has planned an upgrade for part of it's F-4 Fleet with a structural upgrade and the installation of the improved avionics system, which will be called the F-4E 2020 Terminator.
The full upgrade program consists of 54 F-4 aircraft, of which 26 will be completed at IAI's Lahav Division and 28 aircraft will undergo modernization by the TUAF at Eskisehir Air Force Base in Turkey. IAI, the main contractor, and Elbit, a major subcontractor, together with other Israeli and Turkish industries, will supply a modernization kit to the TUAF. The Turkish Ministry of National Defense awarded the F-4 upgrade contract to IAI in August 1995. The total value of the program is $632 million. The upgrade involves a structural and avionics upgrade, the first of 28 to be upgraded at Eskisehar -known as TAMP (Turkish Aircraft Modernisation Phase) aircraft to differentiate them from the Israeli upgrade Phantoms was redelivered on July 3rd 2002