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A U.S. Navy NORTHROP F-5N Tiger II of Fighter Squadron 43 (VF-43) rolls along a runway as a DOUGLAS A-4E Skyhawk of VF-43 comes in to land at Naval Air Station Oceana on 1 March 1990. (b. trombecky usnr)

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Coolest?

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Aggressor's F-5N with two F-22 kill marks

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          VMFT-401 is the only Marine “Adversary” squadron base in MCAS Yuma , AZ. They are  tasked to act as the opposing force in simulated air combat.  Snipers was activated back in 1987 and was given the Isreali F-21 “Kfirs” and later in 1989 they receive the F-5n and was flying them since in these colorful schemes. I sure wish we have the Kfirs since this is such a unique aircraft type to witness.

5 of the Snipers came in on this Hot and humid Texas Summer 7-16-2017. They were on transitional flight from El Paso through Ft Worth Alliance ( KAFW). They came in 2 flights of 3 and than 2 jets doing a carrier left break on runway 35L on KAFW. A quick 40 minutes on the ground gas and go and was off the ground by 11am. Although a routine gas and go but seeing these colorful F-5n just made our day that Sunday Morning. There were 1 Desert Camo, 2x Blue camo, 1x Grey white camo and one Brown green camo patterned F-5n . We were all hoping for the Commander tiger striped F-5F but she did not come.

Hot ramp Actions

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Air actions and Ground Taxi

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Article by

Dave Chng

Snipers in Town VMFT-401 is the only Marine "Adversary" squadron base in MCAS Yuma , AZ. They are  tasked to act as the opposing force in simulated air combat. 

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      VFC-13 the Saints base in NAS Fallon, NV came into Ellington Field KEFD 4/22/2017 for a gas and go. This time we get to see the F-5F in the “Top Gun” MIG-28 scheme. There were 2 tiger Camouflage schemed F-5n and the standard white/grey camouflage jet.

With the colorful camouflage scheme of these Aggressor jets always brings lots of interest among us aviation enthusiast. Catching 4 different schemes is like a fashion show to us.

Here are the actions on the beautiful day in Houston TX.

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Pictures carefully photographed by Bill Havel

  Saints on the ground…. VFC-13 the Saints base in NAS Fallon, NV came into Ellington Field KEFD 4/22/2017 for a gas and go.