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 ...

Iran’s F-5 Tiger II aircraft are decades old and utterly outmatched by modern American and Israeli aircraft—but Iran does not have anything better. The Northrop F-5 Tiger II is a Cold War relic. Once ...