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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chami t" data-source="post: 3705199" data-attributes="member: 145463">Northrop F-5 TigerThe F-5 started life as a privately-funded light fighter program by Northrop in the 1950s. The first generation F-5A Freedom Fighter entered service in the 1960s. Over 800 were produced through 1972 for U.S. allies during the Cold War. The USAF had no need for a light fighter, but it did need a supersonic trainer and procured about 1,200 of a derivative airframe for this purpose, the T-38 Talon.<img src="http://masbagus.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/f-5-tiger.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The improved second-generation F-5E Tiger II was also primarily used by American Cold War allies and, in limited quantities, served in US military aviation as a training and aggressor aircraft; Tiger II production amounted to 1,400 of all versions, with production ending in 1987. Many F-5s continuing in service into the 1990s and 2000s have undergone a wide variety of upgrade programs to keep pace with the changing combat environment. The F-5 was also developed into a dedicated reconnaissance version, the RF-5 Tigereye.</blockquote>

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