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File Name: Fictional Romanian F-5E File Submitter: ctb File Submitted: 11 February 2017 File Category: What If Hangar This is my first mod, so excuse the mistakes! Works in SF1&SF2 if you have the stock Mirage Factory F-5E installed, skins updated after Paulopanz Austrian skins. The aircraft is a What if... plane, supposedly the USA agreed to the Romanian request to sell F-5E Tiger II to SRR (Socialist Republic of Romania, the official name then) back in 1974-1975. At the time relations between Soviet Union and Romania were cold, the soviets were suspecting that SSR might jump in the PRC lap or even worse, defect to the USA sphere of influence. This ”what if” is based on an official Romanian request made in June 1975, after the exposing of the F-5E in the hands of the soviets due to the fall of South Vietnam. North Vietnam captured more than 50 such aircraft and 4 or 5 were shipped immediately to Soviet Union, the rest were used by VPAF. This give the arguments to the Romanian delegation to request the aircraft, motivating that the plane is now no longer a secret to the communist world. In the real life USA said no ... Click here to download this file