Northrop F 5 Freedom Fighter. Northrop F5A Freedom Fighter Philippines Air Force Aviation Photo 2274326 (Photo Credit: Tony Hisgett / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0) The origin story for the Northrop F-5 dates all the way back to the 1950s, when Edgar Schmued, an aircraft designer and the vice president of engineering at the Northrop Corporation, told his team to begin designing an aircraft that went against convention. The Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter" / "Tiger" / "Tiger II" series was designed from the outset as a low-cost, lightweight, multi-role Mach 1-capable combat platform
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The Northrop F-5A and F-5B Freedom Fighter and the F-5E and F-5F Tiger II are part of a supersonic light fighter family, initially designed in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation More than 2,000 F-5 aircraft have been procured by the USAF for use by allied nations.
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Introduced in the early 1960s, it features a twin-engine, high agility design that allows for both air-to-air combat and ground-attack missions The Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter" / "Tiger" / "Tiger II" series was designed from the outset as a low-cost, lightweight, multi-role Mach 1-capable combat platform Being smaller and simpler than contemporaries such as the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, the F-5 cost less to both procure and operate, making it a popular export aircraft.
Northrop F5 Freedom Fighter / Tiger / Tiger II Photos, History, Specification. Improved development F-5E/F and RF-5E Tiger 2 with more powerful engines, wing. The design team wrapped a small, highly aerodynamic fighter around two compact and high-thrust.
Northrop Grumman F5 Tiger Freedom Fighter Pecinta Militer. The Northrop F-5 is a twin-engined single-seat light jet fighter aircraft produced by the US-American manufacturer Northrop Corporation (today Northrop Grumman Corporation).Main versions are the F-5A Freedom Fighter and the F-5E Tiger II with their two-seat trainer variants F-5B and F-5F. F-5 PRODUCTION Development began as the company funded Northrop Model N-156, proposed in two versions as the N-156F (F-5 Freedom Fighter) and N-156T (T-38 Talon)