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F-5 Tiger (Northrop)

The F-5 Freedom Fighter / Tiger fighter jet has been developed by the American company Northrop Grumman in 1954. The first F-5 for the USAF was ready in 1971.
Other operators
The F-5 has been used by 33 (!!) countries and is still in use by 26 countries. The F-5 is in use/was used by:
Bahrain, Botswana, Brazil, Chili, Greece, Honduras,
Norway, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Tunisia, Venezuela, Swiss, Yemen, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Greece, Honduras, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico and Morocco.

Philippines
The Air Force of the Philippe nd which had the ability of 37 F-5A/B fighter jets in the beginning and later still 5 operational have been retired in 2005. The role of the tiger will now be done by converted SIAI S.211 trainers which have machine guns, rockets and bombs.
 

Swiss/Austria

The F-5 is in service with the Swiss Air Force. Swiss has leased a few F-5's to Austria which use the aircraft till they get the Eurofighter Typhoon tranche 2.

Greece
Greece Hellenic Air Force is still using F-5 A/B Freedom Fighters.

the Netherlands
The Netherlands were using the NF-5 Tiger till they have been replaced by F-16's.
Some of the NF-5 tigers were sold to Turkey.
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