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F-5E "IIAF Golden Crown" 3-7099, IIAF, 197
General Background
The Northrop F-5 tactical fighter was designed as an extremely maneuverable, supersonic fighter with a high rate of reliability at a low operating cost. The F-5 first flew on July 30, 1959 with the first customer delivery in 1964. The last of more than 2,600 F-5’s was produced in 1989 and about two-thirds of these are still in service with 26 countries more than 4 decades later. The F-5 was manufactured by Northrop Grumman and under license in Canada, Taiwan, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland.
Specifications :
Crew: | 1 |
Dimensions | |
Length: | 47 ft 4.75 in (14.45 m) |
Wingspan: | 26 ft 8 in (8.13 m) |
Height: | 13 ft 4.5 in (4.08 m) |
Powerplant: | 2 X General Electric J85-GE-21B turbojet |
Dry thrust: | 3,500 lbf (15.5 kN) per engine |
Thrust with afterburner: | 5,000 lbf (22.2 kN) per engine |
Internal fuel : | 677 US gal (2,563 L) |
External fuel: | 275 US gal (1,040 L) per tank in up to 3 tanks |
Weight | |
Empty weight: | 9,558 lb (4,349 kg) |
Loaded weight: | 15,745 lb (7,157 kg) |
Max takeoff weight: | 20,486 lb (9,312 kg) |
Performance | |
Maximum speed: | 917 kn (1,060 mph, 1,700 km/h, Mach 1.6) |
Range: | 760 nmi (870 mi, 1,405 km) |
Ferry range: | 2,010 nmi (2,310 mi, 3,700 km) |
Service ceiling: | 51,800 ft (15,800 m) |
Rate of climb: | 34,400 ft/min (175 m/s) |
Armament | |
Guns: | 2 X 20 mm (0.787 in) Pontiac M39A2 Revolver cannons in the nose, 280 rounds/gun |
Hardpoints: | 7 total (3 X wet): 2 X wing-tip AAM launch rails, 4 X under-wing and 1 X under-fuselage pylon stations holding up to 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg) of payload. |
Rockets: | 2 X LAU-61/LAU-68 rocket pods (each with 19 X / 7 X Hydra 70 mm rockets, respectively) or |
2 X LAU-5003 rocket pods (each with 19 X CRV7 70 mm rockets) or | |
2 X LAU-10 rocket pods (each with 4 X Zuni 127 mm rockets) or | |
2 X Matra rocket pods (each with 18 X SNEB 68 mm rockets) | |
Missiles | |
Air-to-air missile: | 4 X AIM-9 Sidewinders or 4 X AIM-120 AMRAAMs |
Air-to-surface missile: | 2 X AGM-65 Mavericks |
Bombs: | A variety of air-to-ground ordnance such as the Mark 80 series of unguided iron bombs (including 3 kg and 14 kg practice bombs), CBU-24/49/52/58 cluster bomb munitions, napalm bomb canisters and M129 Leaflet bomb and laser guided bombs of Paveway family. |
Others: | up to 3 X 150/275 US gallon Sargent Fletcher drop tanks for ferry flight or extended range/loitering time. |
Avionics: | Emerson Electric AN/APQ-153 radar on early batch of F-5E |
Emerson Electric AN/APQ-159 radar on later production F-5E |