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===Others=== [[File:Saudi Tiger.JPEG|thumb|Royal Saudi Air Force F-5F taking off during the Gulf War.]] Saudi Arabia deployed F-5Es during the [[Gulf War]], flying close air support and aerial interdiction missions against Iraqi units in [[Kuwait]]. One Royal Saudi Air Force F-5E was lost to ground fire on 13 February 1991, resulting in the death of the pilot.<ref>[http://www.rjlee.org/air/ds-aaloss/ "Coalition Fixed-Wing Combat Aircraft Attrition in Desert Storm."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312002904/http://www.rjlee.org/air/ds-aaloss/ |date=12 March 2012}} ''rjlee.org.'' Retrieved: 24 April 2012.</ref> [[AeroGroup]], a private commercial company in the US, operates the CF-5B as a fighter lead-in aircraft for training and for other support services. There were 17 aircraft originally purchased from the Canadian Government with [[US State Department]] approval and then imported into the US in 2006.<ref>[http://a4skyhawk.org/9e/aerogrp/aerogrp.htm "TADS (Tactical Air Defense Services, Inc."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223084408/http://a4skyhawk.org/9e/aerogrp/aerogrp.htm |date=23 February 2014}} ''A-4 Skyhawk Association''. Retrieved: 23 December 2014.</ref><ref>Luark, C. [http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article2908.html "AeroGroup trains Belgium F-16 Pilots at KB."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221173826/http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article2908.html |date=21 February 2014}} ''f-16.net'', 2 June 2008. Retrieved: 23 December 2014.</ref><ref>[http://www.aerogroupinc.com/ "Train Like You Fight...Fight Like You Train."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225063447/http://www.aerogroupinc.com/ |date=25 February 2014}} ''aerogroupinc.com'', 2014. Retrieved: 23 December 2014.</ref> Since 2013, Tunisian F-5s have been used in strike missions in support of major [[Chaambi Operations|military offensives in the border region of Mount Chaambi]] against [[Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia)|Ansar al-Sharia]] and [[Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb|al-Qaeda]]-linked militants.<ref>Chennoufi, A. [http://www.tunivisions.net/45214/235/149/tunisie-regions-bombardements-aerien-et-terrestre-des-refuges-de-53-terroristes-a-jebal-chaambi-a-l-aide-d-avions-f-5.html "Tunisia Regions: air and land bombardments shelters 53 terrorists Jebal Châambi using F-5."]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} ''tunivisions.net'', 2 August 2013. Retrieved: 23 December 2014.</ref><ref>Abdelmoumen, Khalil. [http://www.webdo.tn/2014/04/24/chaambi-pilonnage-intensif-laide-f5/ "Jebel Chaâmbi: Intensive shelling using F5."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224071530/http://www.webdo.tn/2014/04/24/chaambi-pilonnage-intensif-laide-f5/ |date=24 December 2014}} ''webdo'', 24 April 2014. Retrieved: 23 December 2014.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webdo.tn/2013/08/12/les-chasseurs-f-5-entrent-en-action-a-jebel-samama/|title=Les chasseurs F-5 entrent en action à Jebel Samama|date=12 August 2013|access-date=5 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816094903/http://www.webdo.tn/2013/08/12/les-chasseurs-f-5-entrent-en-action-a-jebel-samama/|archive-date=16 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> F-5s were used by the Libyan Air Force at [[Wheelus Air Base]] in [[Tripoli, Libya]] from 1968 to 1969.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}
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