Playing the bad guy to spar against wasn’t some one-off role or a temporary exercise for the F-5 during the Cold War. It’s still operating as an adversarial fighter to this day, nearly six-decades after the first F-5s rolled off the line. The F-5 is kind of like an old Chevy truck powered by a Small Block. Both are reliable and relatively simple for maintenance and operation. They were mass produced on a huge scale meaning that there are no shortages of parts, and the F-5 and the Chevy can both be modified for really whatever role you can think of.
Defense company Northrop Grumman continues to improve and tweak the F-5 to keep it in active training service with upgrades to its avionics systems, aerodynamics, and control surfaces. Spec-wise, the current F-5 Tiger II used by the U.S. Naval Aviators is powered by two General Electric turbojet engines that produce a total of 10,000 pounds of thrust. The F-5N is a little over 47 feet, four inches long and has a wingspan of 26 feet, eight inches.
Not everyone wants to play the bad guy, but the F-5 is one of the best to ever do it and will keep serving far into the future.
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