A gun is no good without bullets
The F5 if frowned upon by us govt won’t get any weapons
Taiwan would have to make all weapons for it
Plus ejection seats and everything else
Uncle Sam would have to approve
And yes the IDF is already being made and is much better
Just say goodbye to the F5
It’s done it’s duty let it retire in peace rather than one by one in pieces
Essentially the IDF is the Northrop replacement to the F5 called the F20 and was up against the general dynamics F16 for the USAF and the F16 won partly because it had one of the same engines as the F15
Taiwan then got the modified F20 and called it the IDF. But with engines from a bizjet