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The Tigercat was designed to have a very small frontal area. F7F-3N Tigercat in use with belly tank in the fire-fighting role in 1988 F7F Tigercat N747MX La Patrona at 2014 Reno Air Races Beginning in 1949, F7Fs were flown to the then-U.S. Navy storage facility at Naval Air Station Litchfield Park , Arizona. [ 13 ]
121 Squadron SAAF was a South African Air Force squadron formed in 1974 to operate the British Tigercat surface-to-air missile systems in an air defence role. The unit was disbanded when the Tigercat system was retired from service in the early 1990s.
The following is a list of active military aircraft of the Philippines. Air Force Main article: List of equipment of the Philippine Air Force § Current inventory
The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation.There are two main models: the original F-5A and F-5B Freedom Fighter variants, and the extensively updated F-5E and F-5F Tiger II variants.
Tigercat is the Grumman F7F Tigercat, an American heavy fighter aircraft. Tigercat or tiger cat may also refer to: Tigercat, a 1960s catamaran sailboat; Hamilton Tiger-Cats, a Canadian football team; Tigercat missile, a mobile land-based version of the Sea Cat; Oncilla or northern tiger cat, a small spotted cat in Central America and Brazil
XF9F-9 prototype An F11F-1 Tiger on USS Independence (CVA-62), with downward-folded wingtips An early production "short nose" F11F and a later "long nose" from VT-23. The origins of the F11F (F-11) Tiger can be traced back to a privately funded 1952 Grumman concept to modernize and improve the F9F-6/7 Cougar, a popular early jet-powered carrier aircraft.
The Tigercat 726 was designed to suit the Southeast United States market. [5] MacDonald Steel owner Ken MacDonald served as the initial CEO with Tony Iarocci serving as president. [3] In 1995 Tigercat opened a primary production site in Paris, Ontario. They significantly expanded the site in 2014.
Seacat was a British short-range surface-to-air missile system intended to replace the ubiquitous Bofors 40 mm gun aboard warships of all sizes. It was the world's first operational shipboard point-defence missile system, and was designed so that the Bofors guns could be replaced with minimum modification to the recipient vessel and (originally) using existing fire-control systems.