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The Northrop F-20 Tigershark (initially F-5G) is a prototype light fighter, designed and built by Northrop.Its development began in 1975 as a further evolution of Northrop's F-5E Tiger II, featuring a new engine that greatly improved overall performance, and a modern avionics suite including a powerful and flexible radar.
The Northrop F-20 Tigershark was an advanced variant to succeed the F-5E which was ... 4× AIM-9 Sidewinder or 4× AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile (F-5S and ...
None of the sources in technical section mention AIM-120 AMRAAMs, so it should be removed. I have just read them as they relate to the tigershark and remove them as unsourced. Fred Walker 12:16, 16 March 2024 (UTC) Harpoons also not mentioned in any of the sources, same treatment Fred Walker 12:21, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
One was downed with an AIM-120, and one with an AIM-9 Sidewinder. [13] In 1998 and 1999 AMRAAMs were again fired by USAF F-15 fighters at Iraqi aircraft violating the No-Fly-Zone, but this time they failed to hit their targets. During spring 1999, AMRAAMs saw their main combat action during Operation Allied Force, the Kosovo bombing campaign.
The first Brazilian F-39E Gripen flight took place on 26 August 2019, from Saab's facility in Linköping, Sweden. [257] It was handed over to the Brazilian Air Force on 10 September 2019 for flight testing. [258] The fighter arrived in Brazil on 20 September 2020, [259] [260] and then was transported by land to Navegantes International Airport.
The F/A-18 Super Hornet, like the one pictured here, can now carry a modified SM-6 missile known as the AIM-174B. The weapon has a longer range than other American air-to-air missiles and could ...
The AN/APG-67 is a multi-mode all-digital X band coherent pulse doppler radar originally developed by General Electric for the Northrop F-20 Tigershark program of the early 1980s. It offers a variety of air-to-air, air-to-ground, sea-search and mapping modes, and compatibility with most weapons used by the US Air Force in the 1980s.
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...