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Aviation History
1985
1985 - 0070.PDF
m*um .*«&•: 11'» NCUVEN iu BE int imoi KELIADLE A THOUSAND TIMES OVER. The F-20 Tigershark has surpassed 1,000 flights. Throughout its comprehen sive flight test and demonstration program, all planned performance and reliability objectives were met. Or exceeded. COMBAT PERFORMANCE Unrestricted maneuvering envelope. No throttle restrictions. Airborne and fully combat capable in less than one minute. Flown to 9 g's. Demonstrated Mach 2 performance. RELIABILITY AND MAINTAINABILITY Mission reliability rate—97.4%. Mean-time-between-failure—4.2 hours. Direct maintenance man-hours per flight hour—9.4. Half the maintenance manpower require ment of comparable fighters. Sorties in one 12-hour period—12. INTEGRATED DIGITAL AVIONICS INS accuracy—.85 nautical miles per hour. Mission computer processing rate— 648,000 operations per second. Demonstrating air-to-air and air-to-ground radar modes. Two to five times more reliable than other current systems. WEAPONS DELIVERY 500-lb. general purpose bombs, continuous computing impact point mode—27.7 ft. average. SURVEILLANCE AREA AND STRIKE RADIUS Single aircraft surveillance with five 500-lb. bombs—550 nautical miles (hi-lo-hi). The F-20 Tigershark. Outstanding combat performance. Unequalled airpower reliability A new generation fighter, by every measure. NORTHROP Making advanced technology work 1840 Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA USA 90067-2199 (C 1984 Northrop Corporation
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