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Product Identifiers

PublisherHistoire ET Collections

ISBN-102352502764

ISBN-139782352502760

eBay Product ID (ePID)221957650

Product Key Features

Book TitleNorthrop F-5 from Freedom Fighter to Tiger II : 1954-2010

Number of Pages100 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicMilitary / United States, Military / Aviation

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorGérard Paloque

Book SeriesPlanes and Pilots Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Series Volume Number18

SynopsisAlthough it was originally intended to provide the USAF with a lightweight fighter, in the end the Northrop F-5 had rather a marginal career in the United States, which used it mainly for training pilots in aerial combat. On the other hand it was a real success in the export market, with more than twenty countries around the world choosing this little effective twin-engined fighter which above all was cheap, particularly when it was partly subsidized by the United States. Its success continued with the improved version, the Tiger II, so much so that in all more than 2600 examples of all versions of the F-5 came of the production lines with a few of them still flying nowadays in some air forces, thanks to the various update programs which have permitted air forces to envisage prolonging their use until 2015-20., Although it was originally intended to provide the USAF with a lightweight fighter, in the end the Northrop F-5 had rather a marginal career in the United States, which used it mainly for training pilots in aerial combat. On the other hand it was a real success in the export market, with more than twenty countries around the world choosing this lit