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Northrop's F-5 Freedom Fighter was a sales success that gave many nations their first taste of supersonic fighters. But as the 1960s came to an end, the avionic and performance compromises that had been taken to get to the right price point no longer looked so clever. So Northrop remixed the formula and came up with the F-5E, one of the best balanced combat aircraft of the Cold War. Note: this video does not cover the F-5's later use as an aggressor.