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Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter and F-5 Tiger II history, specifications, schematics, pictures, and data.. including some purchased by the US Navy and Air Force for use in the Top Gun and Aggressor programs to simulate enemy aircraft and tactics.. (F-5A) 30 July 1959 (RF-5A) May 1968 (F-5E) 11 August 1972 (RF-5E) 29 January 1979 (F-5F) 25.

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Passed over at one time, later used as a trainer, the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter has now taken on new stature. The Mach 1.4 aircraft,. cause of a relatively low top speed and maximum alti-tude. The F-5 is a Mach 1.4, 50,000-foot-altitude air-. F-100C and 6,200 pounds for the F-5A. For most attack missions their range-payload performance.

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The Northrop F-5 Supersonic Fighter: Everything you need to know December 12, 2022 Craig Bowman The Ultra Rare FJ-4B! - WAR THUNDER The Northrop F-5 is small, doesn't have a powerful engine, and only has two hard points for air-to-air missiles.

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1009 Registration # N685TC Condition Used Description This Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter is a rare opportunity to own a twin-engine US-manufactured fighter jet. The type offers performance, capability, and the ever-important margin of safety only offered by twin-engine aircraft.

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On January 4 1980, a new competition for an export fighter, known as the Intermediate Export Fighter or FX, was begun by the State Department in order to recapture this market and appease America's allies. Northrop reissued the F-5G proposal, General Dynamics responded with a lower powered, simpler version of the F-16, known as the F-16/79.

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Background It's been a dilemma since the dawn of aerial combat — tiny, nimble and simple, or fast, brawny and expensive? In the 1950s, the U.S. Air Force, focused on stopping Soviet bombers, was building squadrons of massive, complicated interceptors. Northrop engineers had a better idea.

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The F-5 is a Mach 1.4, 50,000-foot-altitude air- plane, and most of the USAF Century-series fighters are at least 300 mph faster and can operate above 55,000 feet.

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Take-off weight 24 t. The F-5A has very good flight performance. It turns quite well at around 700 km/h (437.5 mph) and is overall a great dogfighter. Although the engines are weak compared to other fighters, the F-5A can still reach a respectable top speed of 1,443 km/h (~902 mph). However, it does take a while to reach that speed so the F-5A.

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at the Western Museum of Flight The F-5A is a small, lightweight, low cost, easy-to-maintain supersonic fighter, well suited to the needs of friendly foreign countries who didn't need, couldn't afford, and couldn't maintain the bigger, more complex fighters in the U.S. inventory.

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Our bird is an F-5A built in 1968. It was initially sold to the Shah of Iran and later traded to Jordan. F-5s are still used today as adversary aircraft in dissimilar air-combat training. In Vietnam, the USAF used F-5s in the brief Skoshi (small) Tiger program. Afterwards, the aircraft were loaned to the Republic of Vietnam Air Force.

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The Northrop aircraft factory built altogether 617 F-5A and 183 F-5B aircraft. In the late 1960's, they also built the RF-5A photo reconnaissance plane. When the Norwegian Airforce decided to replace its F-86 Sabres, the Northtop F-5 was chosen as its successor. Norway purchased altogether 108 F-5's, 78 F5-A's, 14 F-5 B's and 16 RF 5-A's.

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Improved development F-5E/F and RF-5E Tiger 2 with more powerful engines, wing tips and modern avionics.In service with Norwegian, Spanish, Greek and Turkish Air Forces as well as Middle East, Far East, African and Soth American Air Forces. Still serves as aggressor aircraft with US Navy and Marines. Max Speed : 917kts (Mach 1.6) Alternative.

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Sources and Resources Testing may give F-5E longer lease on life Tester February 26, 1997 -- Recently, the algorithms used by NavAir to monitor F-5 fatigue life expended (FLE) were updated. The new algorithms unfortunately resulted in a significant life reduction from what had previously been expected.

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Maximum speed: 925 mph Cruising speed: 575 mph Range: 1,100 miles Ceiling: 50,700 ft. Span: 25 ft. 10 in. Length: 47 ft. 2 in. Height: 13 ft. 6 in. Weight: 20,576 lbs. loaded Serial number: 59-4989 Click here to return to the Southeast Asia War Gallery. Find Out More Related Fact Sheets Northrop AT-38B Talon

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Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter. Origin USA Type light tactical fighter Max Speed 802 kt / 924 mph Max Range 2594 km / 1,612 miles Dimensions span 7.70 m / 25 ft 3 in length 14.38 m / 47 ft 2 in height 4.01 m / 13 ft 2 in Weight empty 3,667 kg / 8,085 lb maximum take-off 9,374 kg / 20,667 lb

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The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation. There are two main models, the original F-5A and F-5B Freedom Fighter variants and the extensively updated F-5E and F-5F Tiger II variants.