I also wonder about operating costs and how relevant the heritage of the F5 being based on the T38 trainer was.Probably depends on how committed you are to something that has afterburners and can go supersonic, even if only for a limited period of time.
Edit to add.. As much as I like to envision the Canadians having a fleet of A7's during the Cold War I wonder what the impacts of not having the CF5 trainer and Recce air craft might have been ?
I'm thinking not having the CF5 trainer fleet could have had some interesting ripple effects.
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