[wrench]

A37s and F5s would serve 98% of the world’s air force needs today.

[az_gila]

Only the BBC could come up with this sentence describing a fighter jet...

“...but also in more humanitarian roles that a budget jet could carry out...”

More humanitarian - because an air delivered bomb is more humanitarian than third world countries armies beheading the opposition?

[pfflier]

You make a very good point. The F-5 is suitable for most interceptor roles (detect, identify, intercept and destroy).

I would, however, substitute the A-10 for the A-37. The Tweet was never designed to do much more than teach second lieutenants about the ratio of lift to gravity.