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The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft ... for the F-5's low operating cost and long service life. ... for significantly below market price
The result was an aircraft that weighed only half of the Navy's weight specification. [5] It had a wing so compact that it did not need to be folded for carrier stowage. The first 500 production examples cost an average of $860,000 (equivalent to about $9,757,000 in 2023) each, less than the Navy's one million dollar maximum. [2]
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 Canadair CF-5 (officially designated the CF-116 Freedom Fighter) is a Canadian licensed-built Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter. It is a light, supersonic, twin engine, daylight air superiority fighter primarily for the Canadian Forces (as the CF-5) and the Royal Netherlands Air Force (as the NF-5). The CF-5 was upgraded periodically throughout ...
The Northrop F-20 Tigershark was an update of the F-5 intended for the export market, but lost out to the F-16 and never entered production. In the 1980s the privately developed F-5G, later renamed the Northrop F-20 Tigershark, aimed to correct weaknesses in the aging F-5 while maintaining small size and low cost. Its empty weight was 6,000 kg ...
Northrop continued to build much of the F-18 fuselage and other systems after this period, but also returned to the original F-5 design with yet another new engine to produce the F-20 Tigershark as a low-cost aircraft. This garnered little interest in the market, and the project was dropped.
F-19 is a skipped DoD designation in the Tri-Service fighter aircraft designation sequence which was thought by many popular media outlets to have been allocated to the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, but was actually skipped in favor of F-20 for the Northrop F-5G Tigershark at Northrop's request to avoid confusion with the MiG-19.
AV-8B+ Harrier (Northrop Grumman AN/AAQ-28(V)2 Litening II upgraded to Northrop Grumman AN/AAQ-28(V)4 Litening AT Block 0) Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan Air Force. Su-27 (Rafael Litening III) Netherlands. Royal Netherlands Air Force. General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon [28] (Northrop Grumman AN/AAQ-28(V)6 Litening AT Block 2) Portugal. Portuguese ...