F-5 Tigers still making news

[madrat]

Singapore and Brazil seem to have the best versions.

[huggy]

I'd be curious to know if any of these up-rated F-5's ever attended Red Flag. Would be interesting to see how they fared, particularly the Taiwan models...

I cannot imagine any of those countries have brought an F-5 to Nellis in well over a decade... if at all The cost, distance, and logistics are significant for them.

South American F-5's? Probably a few have participated... but that's ancient history (certainly over 10 years ago).

If you find out otherwise, certainly let us know.

[edpop]

I'd be curious to know if any of these up-rated F-5's ever attended Red Flag. Would be interesting to see how they fared, particularly the Taiwan models...

I cannot imagine any of those countries have brought an F-5 to Nellis in well over a decade... if at all The cost, distance, and logistics are significant for them.

South American F-5's? Probably a few have participated... but that's ancient history (certainly over 10 years ago).

If you find out otherwise, certainly let us know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-mOl8H7-Ks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZFgRallC6g

[basher54321]

Spanish F-5s hit 50 years service.

The F-5 flew for more than 170,000 hours and contributed to the training of over 1,000 fighter pilots.
The Spanish Air Force (Ejército del Aire) reached the historic milestone of 50 years of service of the F-5 Freedom Fighter on Nov. 12, 2020.

The F-5s, built under license from Northrop by Construcciones Aeronuticas SA (CASA), first arrived at Talavera la Real Air Base on November 12, 1970, where they were assigned to the then Escuela de Reactores (Jet School), now Ala 23 de Instrucción de Caza y Ataque (Fighter and Attack School).

https://theaviationist.com/2020/11/19/t ... air-force/

[basher54321]

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md.
Jul 14 2022

The Navy’s Specialized and Proven Aircraft program office (PMA-226) F-5N+/F+ Avionics Reconfiguration and Tactical Enhancement/Modernization for Inventory Standardization (ARTEMIS) program successfully reached Milestone C decision June 28, effectively moving into production and deployment.

To meet the Navy and Marine Corps requirement to increase fleet adversary training capacity with high-altitude tactical fighters, the PMA-226 Adversary Team is inducting 22 repatriated, former Swiss Air Force F-5E/F aircraft into the ARTEMIS modification program. This program will reconfigure the airframe and incorporate a block upgrade consisting of emerging and existing commercial technology while capitalizing on industry’s private investment and lessons learned to upgrade necessary safety and capability features on the aircraft.

The program office will reconfigure the airframes and convert the F-5E/F engines to the Navy and Marine Corps standard F-5N/F. Once that is complete, the program will integrate the block upgrade, which consists of a new glass cockpit and avionics suite that uses technology found in more modern aircraft to improve safety and capability. Subsequent to this upgrade, the 22 aircraft will be in the F-5N+/F+ baseline configuration.

The Adversary Team and industry partner Tactical Air Support, Inc. (Tactical Air Support) will execute the F-5N+/F+ ARTEMIS program. Tactical Air Support owns and operates F-5AT aircraft currently supporting PMA-226 tactical fighter training and has performed similar modernization and safety upgrades on its own fleet of aircraft. Tactical Air Support assisted in the validation of the block upgrade F-5N+/F+ configuration on two of the prototype Navy F-5Ns completed earlier this year.

https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/Navys- ... uction-and

[spazsinbad]

Some other F-5 info will be posted soon: http://www.public.navy.mil/NAVSAFECEN/D ... 61_No3.pdf

Part A then Part B PDFs with stories/mentions of the F-5 in various forms in usually USN or USAF use.