General Dynamics was not the only manufacturer to evaluate large wing designs. Northrop watched quietly from the sidelines on the progress of F-16XL. In March 1984, one month after the F-16XL program was cancelled, Northrop rolled out the F-20XL. Like the F-5 and F-20, it was built to provide an upgrade the current F-5 users to a more advanced mutli-role platform.
The GD Fighting Falcon team cried "fowl" when they saw it. The Northrop Tigershark team replied "bite me!".
The wings are from an Italeri KFIR C2. I needed lots of help from Dr. Dremel to adapt the F-20 to the KFIR wings. You can see I am using bits from many other sources. I'll provide the complete BoM at the end of the build. I also have a name for it but I will also keep that to the end.
I still need to decide on what the war load will be. With main gear in the wings, it will not have as many hard-points as the F-16XL did. But I figure I can squeeze in 6 plus the center line station.