Northrop F-20 Tigershark video (F-5G)

damone87 Says:

May 14, 2008 - Oh Hell Yeah.Looks Kind Of Like Area 88.

pushitgently Says:

May 21, 2008 - if we looked from the design point of view yea the F-20 was and is a mature design compare to the F-16 ,but again the lobbyist in a congress in favour of General Dynamics that time which making it sucks!

pushitgently Says:

May 21, 2008 - that's why I hate politics!

outstandyou Says:

May 22, 2008 - Shit plane...i could build a better one outta paper and it wudnt cost me shit.!

baxalo Says:

Jun 4, 2008 - The story of this plane, can be a movie.Comedy, drama, agony, it s all there. Much better than the opponent f16.The test pilots loved this plane.The promoting campaingh begun in Greeceand airforces all around the world wereexcited.Next day the price of f16 was 12mil.3mil less. The f20 couldnt follow this marketing. We all know how much the falconcosted the day when f20, shut down its programm.

Kjellern150 Says:

Jun 7, 2008 - This is just the ultimate bird. Thats how a jet should look like. The perfect design.

darkstar1one Says:

Jun 13, 2008 - Does anyone know where this video was shot?

msjr777 Says:

Jun 18, 2008 - This is my favorate jet.Like small jets.Not to but the others down.

yakovlev3a Says:

Jun 22, 2008 - I like this one and the f16 alot. But they are taking the f-16 out of service :(

rainydays516 Says:

Jul 11, 2008 - Great vid, love that thing. Anyone knows the name of the song by the way?

iokua Says:

Jul 15, 2008 - No, they are removing the F-15. The F-16 will be in for a while.

lykospolman Says:

Jul 16, 2008 - chuk yagger has one for him self

mousefla Says:

Aug 6, 2008 - F-20 was too far ahead of it's time.... and it is. With today electronics and engines it would have been the best "dogfight" jet in the world

jtno2 Says:

Aug 11, 2008 - I with you there. Utterly idiotic to base our air superiority on a handful of super expensive, super exotic fighters. We can't even afford to lose any to accidents which are pilots, being human, are bound to have.

swisstestpilot Says:

Aug 22, 2008 - very nice this F-5G resp F-20. Would be interesting to see it next to the F-5E and F-18then it is with his parts exact between this 2

22250rmntn Says:

Aug 24, 2008 - Nice video of a great jet, but wish they did'nt use a background music that sounds like something from an early 1980's VHS porno flick.

krenim786 Says:

Aug 27, 2008 - northrop always has problems marketing its planes the F-20 is nothing they couldn't sell the achingly pretty YF_23 black widow.The F-20 was offered to Taiwan but the US govt blocked the deal supposedly at the urging of general dynamics which made the F-16 back then.

Estuarchaos0 Says:

Aug 28, 2008 - The F-20 is the coolest jet fighter in the world, in my opinion.Watching the oldschool Area 88 anime movies made it even more epic to me.

cable124 Says:

Sep 29, 2008 - Had Northrop known it was going to compete against the F-16, it would have designed a much bigger airframe, more powerful engine,and with more sophistication regarding to weapons and avionics. I have no doubt this new version would have been attractive the USAF and given LM a run for their money. Politics is the true killer in the end though...Damn I wish this jet was flying, I would have loved to see how the plane would have evolved to meet with the times..

81BigBoy Says:

Oct 5, 2008 - can some one tell me if some other country like mexico can buy the desing to produce the f-20 again

Enoppixz Says:

Oct 16, 2008 - It's a shame. They could've sold some of these if they didn't market it against the F-16.

killer10126 Says:

Nov 7, 2008 - Y does the F-20 carry a gunpod as shown in 1.30? I tot they have their own internal gun

yooutube321321 Says:

Nov 8, 2008 - Yes, two 20mm actually. But gunpods are often jused on aircrafts with internal canons to make them more capable to perform CAS and simmilar missions :)

jbcanada77 Says:

Nov 9, 2008 - Can someone please tell me the name of this song?

geargemartin Says:

Nov 23, 2008 - the f-20 was desighned as an export fighter. chiefly for taiwan who wanted 200. the u.s. at the time restricted sales to taiwan so that deal fell through. the f-20 was in many ways comparable to the f-16 and considerably less expensive. but the design was based on (at the time) a 25 year old airframe, most nations decide to go with a more modern design, the f-16, or they continued to buy the less capable but still effective f-5e, which stayed in production until 1979. have i bored you yet?