{"id":148882,"date":"2024-11-11T01:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T15:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/northrop-f-20-tigershark-best-us-fighter-jet-never-built\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T01:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T15:01:14","slug":"northrop-f-20-tigershark-the-best-us-fighter-jet-never-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=148882","title":{"rendered":"Northrop F-20 Tigershark: The Best US Fighter Jet Never Built"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the height of the Cold War, American defense contractors and aerospace manufacturers scrambled to create fighter jets optimized to counter the latest advances in Soviet technology. The administrations of presidents including Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan emphasized the need to continue developing advanced fighter jets<\/a><\/span>, and they sponsored the development of many different prototype fighter aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The program was eventually canceled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,628,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t