In 1962, the US Department of Defense announced it had selected the F-5 for its Military Assistance Program (MAP). The original F-5A Freedom Fighter was optimized for the air-to-ground role and was ...

You too have probably seen the F-5 in action without even knowing so. Typically, when an aerospace firm invests the vast quantity of resources required to develop and produce a brand-new military ...

Near the end of the war in Vietnam, an American-built Northrop F-5 fighter in South Vietnamese markings dropped bombs on the South Vietnamese Independence Palace shortly before the fall of Saigon.

The Swiss air force has begun the process of transferring 22 decomissioned Northrop F-5 Tiger II fighters to the US Marine Corps and US Navy, which operate the legacy type as an adversary air platform ...

Taiwan has formally retired its last Northrop F-5 fighters following over 50 years of service with the nation’s air force. The milestone was marked at a ceremony at Taiwan’s Hualien air base with a ...