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2 F-5E's from the 2nd Fighter Training Squadron, 325 Fighter Wing.   The two tail numbers included are 67-833 and 66-404 both representing real world T-38's from Tyndall AFB, FL.  2 FTS is responsible for providing aggressor training to F-22 squadrons.

A recreation of the 58th TFW Luke AFB F-5E #01389.
IMPORTANT!!! Please install Fallen_AK's RoughMet patch, otherwise the polished metal effect on my skin will not be visible and it will be matte white instead. You can download his very useful mod here: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3303667/

Changelog - 20th February 2021:
- Created RoughMet's from scratch after learning more about their creation - they look a lot better now!
- Made the black part of the nose more glossy after receiving feedback.. Thanks, Mudi :)

Following the dissolution of Oseas primary Aggressors squadron, the role of an affordable offensive counter-air asset became all the more vital to OADF Readiness. As a result the 552nd AGRS was reactivated to fill this vital niche.

To even be considered for the Squadron, a pilot must have completed an instructor tour at Fighter Weapons School at Newburg Air Force Base. Following selection,  pilots attend an aggressors school at the squadron Garrison at Day AFB, Before being put on rotation for base visit temporary duty assignments.

While on assignment, pilots will go to Air Combat Command wings to host abbreviated courses on ACM and handling contested airspace; the F-5s they fly being capable of mimicking flight profiles of various adversary aircraft.

Dating back to the 1940s, the Buldoggen had actually been a unit of Osean origin. During economic downturn in the 1930s, many Osean veterans retreated to Nordlands for the better quality of life and economic certainty than they had faced in their homeland. When hostilities broke into open war in 1939, the Nordland crown was ill equipped to refuse the volunteer force he found in his adopted population. Due to its makeup of primarily expatriate Oseans, the “Bulldog” Squadron was operated more as a paramilitary force, then a legitimate arm of the Nordlands Army Aviation Brigade. Nevertheless, armed with Spitfires donated through a foreign Benefactor,  the Bulldogs would help enforce Nordlands sovereignty in the conflict against its aggressive neighbors alongside the rest of The Kingdoms military.

The Units unique culture and sacrifices would be memorialized with the integrated 117 Squadron ‘Buldoggen’ in the newly founded Royal Nordlands Air Force in 1951

F-5E ''Tiger'' from Vietnam AF 1967 & 1975

Updated F-5 Aggressors with new Markings as requested.

Republic of Gabet Air Force F-5E3 Tiger II, 5th Air Division, 24. Squadron.

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This guide provides the ability to calculate mission fuel requirements for multiple aircraft types. Separate calculators enable the estimation of Bingo and Joker fuel levels, with a second one providing an estimation of total fuel requirements. Also includes a quick Bingo reference based on range and altitude.

Established at Heirelark Air Force Base, the 531st Fighter Training Squadron "Gamblers" is one of the final steps a student pilot must take before they can be considered for further fighter pilot training within the OADF. Not everyone who passes through the gates will succeed, but thanks to the training provided by the men and women of the 531st, those pilots who do pass are some of the best prepared for the trials that come with being a fighter pilot.

Flying the F-5E, pilots learn the basics of BFM, all the way to simulated BVR engagements and complex ACM war games fought against nearby MiG Aggressor Squadrons.

Its a gamble to become a fighter pilot, but for those of the 531st, its one they gladly make every day.

Purchased in 1960 through the Emmerian Foreign Military Sales, the F-5E became a critical backbone to the Janosian Air Defense Force as a cheap, lightweight fighter to counterbalance the heavier F-4Cs and F-104s they had in their inventory.

Over the intervening years the Janosian F-5Es have become a formidable opponent with domestically produced block upgrades, including AGM-84 'Harpoon' missile capabilities, data linked into a controlling AEWC or Surface asset.

The 305th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Sakuras, is one of the final F-5E Squadron’s in Janosia however, with a bulk of F-5Es being retired in 2000 thanks to the far superior F-2A. Currently the Tiger is expected to be retired fully in 2026 in favor of the F-2A.