(U.S. F-5E fighter)
This morning, in fact, just now, the other side reported that a F-5E fighter crashed into the sea during daily training. The pilot jumped to escape. After being rescued, he was rescued and died. . The other side, which had always believed that it was a powerful military force, could not hold it in the air confrontation with the mainland for more than a month, and began to crash the plane, which really made people doubt its resistance. Moreover, the F-5E fighter plane that crashed this time has a bad reputation. During the Cold War, it was only exported as a US "military aid" fighter jet. The US military itself simply did not look at it. In addition, due to its age, it was already overdue. In the state of service, it is still sad to be tied to the chariot of "Taiwan independence" and continue to sell his life. The
F-5 fighter is a dual-engine light single-seater fighter developed by Northrop Corporation in the United States from 1956 to 1962. Due to its poor performance, the US Air Force and the Navy did not take it seriously. Only a few two-seater versions were purchased as coach The aircraft is used, and only the US Air Force’s "imaginary enemy forces" purchase a small amount to simulate MiG-21 fighters for daily confrontational training. Most of the F-5 series fighter jets were exported to the United States as "military aid" aircraft, and they were one of the largest number of fighter jets provided by the United States during the Cold War.
( Thai Air Force 's F-5E fighter)
F-5E fighter is a mature and improved model in the F-5 family. The basic equipment of the aircraft is 2 20mm M-39 cannons and 5 external hang points. It can mount AIM-9 "Sidewinder" fighting missile , various air-to-surface bombs, rockets, and AGM-65 "young animal" air-to-surface missiles. Its empty weight is only 4.41 tons, and its maximum take-off weight is 11.2 tons. , Is a typical light fighter. The supersonic performance of the aircraft is not as good as the MiG-21, but it has a longer range and better subsonic combat performance. Therefore, it has the ability to confront the MiG-21 head-on, and the price is cheap. There are still many countries and regions equipped with this aircraft.
(the King’s plane that was strafed by the F-5E)
Despite its large output and many exports, the F-5E’s reputation is not good. This is mainly due to the aircraft’s weak firepower and poor protection. mesa. One of the assassinations that shocked Africa made F-5E fighter jets famous all over the world-but notorious. On August 16, 1972, planned by the American CIA, the Moroccan Air Force in North Africa dispatched five F-5E fighter jets to assassinate the then King Hassan II of Morocco in the air, attempting to shoot down Hassan II’s special plane in the air and put it down. shoot down. It stands to reason that 5 fighters intercepted a Boeing-727 civil aircraft (the special plane of Hassan II), and this success rate is beyond doubt. However, this incident happened to be done by the F-5E fighter! The pilot in charge of the assassination fired up all 280 rounds of artillery shells, but the Boeing 727 continued to falter and landed at the Capital Airport. Hassan II himself was spared. As a result, the notoriety of insufficient power of the F-5E fighters spread.
This is not over. During the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1975, the South Vietnamese Air Force also received a large number of F-5E fighters. These fighters are light, fast, and flexible, and are very suitable for ground support missions, but These aircraft have no attendance records in the combat records of the South Vietnam Air Force, which is obviously problematic (and there are a large number of F-5E fighter attendance records in the US military records). According to records from the North Vietnamese side, in the confrontation with the South Vietnamese army, the North Vietnamese guerrillas used the AK-47 to shoot down 2 F-5E fighters and 1 UH-1 helicopter in 5 minutes. Considering that the F-5E fighter is a cheap military-assisted fighter, its main feature is that it is cheap, so it has no armor protection at all, just like the Japanese zero fighters. The
F-5E fighter jet was discontinued in the United States as early as 1987. The last batch of aircraft assembled by other countries using its remaining parts was delivered in 1989. And the F on the other sideThere are a total of about 100 -5E fighters, all of which were delivered before 1979. It has been more than 40 years now. According to the normal 30-year service life of fighters, these F-5E fighters have already overdue service, so crashes are also normal. The other side insists on going its own way, insisting on arming against the wheels of public opinion and history across the country, and in the end it can only throw a rock on itself. And holding this kind of antique fighter that can't even stop the AK-47 bullets, and delusional to resist reunification with force, it is too naive and ridiculous.
