Good summaries but it might be timely to remind everyone that not all F4s were equal in the air to air arena.
In the 70s, the F4Es (USAF main fighter at the time) had pulse radars. Only the USN F4J had the pulse doppler radar (PD) and most guys who flew it admitted that it was U/S more than it was S. Only the UK versions had genuine working PD AWG 10/12s at the time which gave a viable look down shoot down, particularly below 5000 ft. Even then the serviceability was dreadful until the transmitter mods.
Only later when the F4F received the APG 65 and AMRAAM was the jet able to match the 3rd gen fighters but by then the UK jets had all but retired.