Talk:Northrop F-20 Tigershark/@comment-71.11.19.41-20160509024815

This plane should have been part of our inventory. Unfornunately the persons in power in the air force whould have nothing to do with it. They were vested in the F-16, a much more complicated, more expensive, more costly to operate. The F-20's  predicessor the F-5 is much loved and still flying around the world and in the USA. The F-20 would have been our best preditor aircraft replacing the F-5, which flew TopGun for a long time. In a political deal they give it to the Israeles who were manufacturing a a design stolen from the French. It was found to be not suitable. This was a perfect replacement for our foreign friends which were flying the F-5 and other aircraft. In performance it was supposed to be the equal of the F-16.