USN’s new rebuilt Cold War era F-5N Tiger-2, NATO’s Russian ‘aggressor’ simulator

Video report, Fleet Readiness Center Southeast, Florida, announces their first rebuilt F-5N is complete, 27MAY2021:

USN photo by Toiete Jackson, 01MAR2021.

USN photo by Toiete Jackson, 01MAR2021.

A rebuilt F-5N gets a pre-flight inspection. USN photo by Toiete Jackson, 01MAR2021.

USN photo by Toiete Jackson, 17FEB2021.

USN photo by Toiete Jackson, 17FEB2021.

Jacksonville, Florida, Fleet Readiness Center Southeast. U.S. Navy Photo by Toiete Jackson, 17FEB2021.

A spare intake is used to practice a new paint process that is meant to streamline the engine air intakes. USN photo by Ashley Lombardo, 20JUL2020.

USN photo by Toiete Jackson, 20MAY2020.

A 3D scan was made of theF-5N’s engine air intakes, to help engineers create a new paint/coating that will streamline the intake. USN photo by Toiete Jackson, 24SEP2019.

On 11SEP2019, Fleet Readiness Center Southeast got its first F-5N to be rebuilt. USN photo by Toiete Jackson.

Fleet Readiness Center Southeast video report announcing new contract to rebuild F-5Ns, 06FEB2019:

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