Impressive photographs showing the pilot ejecting from the Swiss Air Force F-5 before the crash have been published on social media. A Northrop F-5E Tiger II jet of the Swiss Air Force crashed ...

Even today, later variants like the F-5E and F-5F Tiger II are still impressive ... It's a likely explanation why the U.S. Air Force never bothered with them in nearly the same way they did ...

But Ethiopians had one strong card to play - their air force. Trained by the USA and equipped mostly with various versions of F-5, their pilots would prove crucial in the outcome of the war.

An earlier tranche of Swiss F-5E/Fs were acquired by the USN in 2006 ... Roughly half of the Swiss air force’s active F-5s are operated by the Patrouille Suisse flight demonstration team ...