Article Summary - Northrop’s F-20 Tigershark was designed as the ideal American export fighter: affordable, easy to sustain, and potent enough to anchor partner air forces without handing them ...

Key Points and Summary - Northrop’s F-20 Tigershark began as the F-5G: a single-engine, low-cost export fighter with an F404 engine, APG-67 radar, Sparrow capability, and Mach-2 performance.

The F-20, despite having many things going for it, had some key weaknesses. Those weaknesses were exploited by America’s bureaucracy to make the case that the F-16 was a better plane. Northrop’s F-20 ...