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    The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, Northrop’s interest in the lightweight fighter concept would ultimately come to fruition with the F-5 Freedom Fighter, itself...
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    HESA Azarakhsh (category 1990s Iranian fighter aircraft)
    American Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter/Tiger II although Iranian authorities claim it is Iran's first domestically manufactured combat jet fighter. The Azarakhsh...
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    inactivated in 1947. The squadron was re-activated in 1969 as a Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter training squadron for Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots for...
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    The Northrop YF-17 (nicknamed "Cobra") was a prototype lightweight fighter aircraft designed by Northrop aviation for the United States Air Force's Lightweight...
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    Grumman. Retrieved 2023-11-06. "Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter". Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. Retrieved 2023-11-06. "Grumman F-14A Tomcat | The Museum of Flight"...
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    form Northrop Grumman. Northrop N-1 (USAAC flying wing bomber) Northrop N-4 (USAAF pursuit) Northrop N-5 (USAAF pursuit) Northrop N-6 (Navy fighter design)...
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    final predecessor was the 10th Fighter Squadron, Commando, which performed combat testing of the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter from April 1966 until the planes...
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    Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter Sukhoi Su-9 Sukhoi Su-11 Related lists List of Dassault Mirage III operators List of fighter aircraft List...
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    can be traced back to 1952 and Northrop's N-102 Fang and N-156 fighter aircraft projects. During the mid-1950s, Northrop officials decided to adapt the...
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    The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, supersonic stealth fighter aircraft technology demonstrator designed for...
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    driven dive bomber, the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, the F-100 Super Sabre, the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk carrier borne light attack plane...
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    The Northrop F-15 Reporter (later RF-61) was an American unarmed photographic reconnaissance aircraft. Based on the Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter...
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    June 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2012. "Canadair (Northrop) CF-5A Freedom Fighter, twin engine jet fighter, Canada". Dishlevoy, Roy W. "Hatching the Snowbirds:...
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    The Northrop P-61 Black Widow is a twin-engine United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft of World War II. It was the first operational U.S. warplane...
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    and is thus comparable to the American Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter and the French Dassault Mirage III. Its basic layout...
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    The Boeing F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet are a series of American supersonic twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole fighter aircraft derived from the...
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    a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation). Designed by McDonnell Douglas and Northrop, the F/A-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17...
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    The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for...
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  • bought in 1973, and deliveries started in 1974. Modernization of Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter with improved technology and the purchase of 24 Alpha Jet E would...
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    participated in the flyoff against the Northrop YF-17 prototypes, with the F-16 winning the Air Combat Fighter (ACF) competition, as the LWF program had...
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  • advanced fighter aircraft. The last of the purpose-designed day fighters were the original American General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon and the Northrop YF-17...
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    ISBN 978-0-8393-6175-6 Goodall, James C. "The Northrop B-2A Stealth Bomber." America's Stealth Fighters and Bombers: B-2, F-117, YF-22, and YF-23. St. Paul, Minnesota:...
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    F-86s were subsequently phased out of service in the 1970s as the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter and Vought F-8 Crusaders became the primary fighters and...
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    had since its opening been renamed KAF Nanyuki). In 1978, the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter was introduced to the KAF and also based at Nanyuki, and the...
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    American F-100 Super Sabre fighter/ground attacker aircraft. A number of candidates were considered and these were: the Douglas A-4F Skyhawk, Northrop F-5 Freedom...
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    American North American F-86 Sabre, Northrop F-5 and the Soviet Mikoyan MiG-15. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 was a Soviet jet fighter developed shortly after...
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    first used on the Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter" which flew in 1959, and have since become commonplace on many combat aircraft. The F/A-18 Hornet has especially...
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