F-0195 Northrop F-5A Tiger

Film from the late 1960's showing the capabilities of the Northrop F-5A Tiger. Fighter, export fighter. color/sound/11:32 min
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[@tundra109710]

no one ever wants to admit it but the F-5 is the best fighter ever built when its bang for the buck, You could buy a 110 F-5’s at 2 mill new for the price of a F22, a single F-22 is never stopping 110 F-5's... i mentioned NEVER right lol we need both but this plane is where its at sorry!

[@toolbaggers]

The cost of training a basic qualified fighter pilot adds up to an estimated $5.6 million for an F-16 pilot and $10.9 million for an F-22 pilot. The optimal pilot will have a bachelor degree in science and be around 30 years old and you also have to add the costs of the many years of service and pensions and payments made to the dead pilots families. The 110 F-5's need an air base and all the support needed to run a base. Assuming that pilots lives are expendable, actual cost of operating 110 F-5's will probably be around several billion dollars upfront and at least a billion dollars a year to operate.

[@toolbaggers]

All it takes is a single F22 to drop a bomb on the F5's runway.

[@rifletwist]

THANK YOU so much for this rare video.

[@gpdude22]

And they're still using these and T-38s for Dissimilar Air Combat Training. It's much less expensive to put hours on these airframes than an F-35. In the movie Top Gun, they were "MiG-28s".

[@alexander-qm5vs]

really good fighter. not many test planes from that age went off to be mass produced and used.. most got tested and just scraped.

[@dkoz8321]

Between F-5A, F-5B, F-5E Tiger II, and to modern Canadian, Swiss, Thai, and Brazilian variants this programme has been a unmitigated success for Northrop later Northrop-Grumman. Whata tropper! A Cold War warrior!

[@d.howerton9273]

The F-5 Freedom Fighter and A-4 Skyhawk make a superb complementary combat team...the F-5 for air defense and the A-4 for strike and close air support missions. Too bad Northrup didn't supply the Navy with a carrier capable F-5 variant.

[@allgood6760]

Awesome plane👍✈️

[@progx8679]

What a great little fighter, very cost effective for Nato and many others ! Semper Fi

[@scottwins2]

My dad helped put these in the air at Mc Clelan AFB. I used to sit in them. It had two 40 caliber machine guns in the nose. Many were sold to Iran

[@geraldrembert8321]

What year was this filmed? Can anyone tell me.

[@geraldrembert8321]

wasn't this plane know as the T-38?

[@RCAvhstape]

Both the F-5 and the T-38 are part of Northrop's N-156 project so they are basically sisters. The T-38 was a successful trainer so Northrop built a dedicated combat aircraft version which became the F-5.

[@gpdude22]

T-38 is a 2-seater.