In the combat sequence of the Taiwan military, a fairly large number of F-5 Tiger fighters were previously equipped, and these fighters were already in a serious old state and could not carry out air supremacy combat missions at all, so the role played by the F-5E/F Tiger fighters was pilot training. Judging from a lot of news reported on Taiwan in recent years, the F-5E/F Tiger fighter has repeatedly sounded the alarm during the flight, and even the crash of the plane has occurred, which has also led to the direct death of many pilots on Taiwan, and even after the pilot pulls the ejection handle, he cannot successfully escape from these F-5 Tiger fighters. After Taiwan has the Eagle advanced trainer aircraft downgraded based on the IDF, Taiwan has also replaced the existing F-5 Tiger fighters, but the American-made fighters that even Taiwan does not want are rushed by the United States, as a rather old fighter, the United States now wants to purchase more of these F-5 fighters.
Taiwan is not the only overseas user of the F-5 Tiger fighter jet, and the Swiss Air Force also has a significant number of F-5 Tiger fighters in the combat sequence. The United States has purchased 22 retired F-5 Tiger fighters from the Swiss Air Force, and the first aircraft has recently been delivered to the US Marine Corps. The United States has long used F-5 fighters to play the role of an imaginary enemy. Judging from many photos released by the United States in the past, in the process of training for the US Marine Corps, these F-5 Tiger fighters have been painted close to the opponent in order to better simulate the opponent, even including the PLA military emblem.
The United States wants to use the F-5 Tiger fighter to play the role of the PLA, although the United States pointed out that a lot of maintenance work will be carried out on these aircraft, and the use of the U.S. military's standardized avionics equipment to reconfigure these F-5 Tiger fighters to upgrade these F-5 Tiger fighters to a glass cockpit, but in fact, these F-5 fighters are actually very different from today's fourth-generation aircraft because of their serious age. With the continuous equipment of more and more advanced fourth-generation and fifth-generation aircraft in the PLA's combat sequence, the War Research Institute believes that when using these F-5 fighters to play the PLA, in fact, the tactical improvement that the United States can obtain is very limited, after all, today's air combat has long become an out-of-sight operation, and there will be no close-range combat between two fighters in the air.
Although there are still a small number of J-7 fighters in the PLA's combat sequence, but these J-7 fighters are also in a state of imminent retirement, the United States believes that the use of F-5 fighters can provide US pilots with access to the real combat scenarios of different types of aircraft, and in this controlled environment to train pilots, but with the continuous improvement of the strength of the PLA Air Force, the United States is still using F-5 fighters to play the imaginary enemy, I am afraid it is difficult to simulate the PLA, according to the information obtained by the Institute of War Research, the United States has previously used F-35 stealth fighters to play the role of an imaginary enemy, and as a powerful generationless aircraft, it can also better simulate a large number of advanced air forces of the PLA.
While the United States is using the old F-5 Tiger fighters, the War Research Institute believes that the United States should also be careful that these old planes are very likely to crash due to the decline in the condition of the planes, because some time ago, the United States has already had many crashes of old planes, so that the US military's aviation accident rate is even far higher than that of India. Text/Iris