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Thumbnail Filmstrip of F-5F Tiger II USMC VMFT-401 Snipers, "Red 00" MCAS 1:72 HA3324 Images
Northrop F-5F Tiger II Diecast Model
USMC VMFT-401 Snipers, "Red 00", MCAS Yuma, AZ, August 2011
Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 (VMFT-401 “Snipers”) was activated in March 1986 at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona and is the USMC’s only adversary squadron. The USN acquired low hour F-5E/F’s from Switzerland with the USMC obtaining three of these aircraft. They combined the tail and cockpit forward of their own F-5F with the wings and fuselage of the Swiss F-5E’s creating a “Franken- Tiger”. Aircraft 761586 was the first of three to be created. In 2011 762586 was given a paint scheme to mark the 25th Anniversary of VFMT-401.