{"id":370444,"date":"2026-02-17T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-northrop-f-5-tiger-ii-fighters-built\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:00:17","slug":"how-many-northrop-f-5-tiger-ii-fighters-were-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=370444","title":{"rendered":"How Many Northrop F-5 Tiger II Fighters Were Built?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1962, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2023651\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/northrop-f-5-history\/\" >the US Department of Defense announced it had selected the F-5 for its Military Assistance Program (MAP)<\/a><\/span>. The original F-5A Freedom Fighter was optimized for the air-to-ground role and was very limited in the air-to-air role; it did not have a fire-control radar. The aircraft got its name &#8220;Tiger&#8221; after a dozen were sent to Vietnam to serve in the 4503rd Tactical Fighter Wing as part of a program code-named &#8220;Skoshi Tiger&#8221; (Little Tiger).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why around a third of F-5 Tiger IIs remain in service with air forces around the world and the family became one of Northrop&#8217;s most popular.<\/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":[396,628,915],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-northrop-grumman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370445,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370444\/revisions\/370445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}