Life Extension and Upgrade Inspiration

[Kerick]

You would have to buy four Enterprise kits to provide the eight engines. Could be worth it!

[Jeffry Fontaine]

You would have to buy four Enterprise kits to provide the eight engines. Could be worth it!

I believe it would look just as good with four warp drive units instead of eight. 

[elmayerle]

How about a B-58 with 8 J97s?

B-58   
4 x J79 41,600
8 x J97 42,160

The General Electric J97 is a single-shaft turbojet engine designed and built by General Electric as a compact high-performance engine for light attack fighters and eventually a number of drone projects.



B-58-J97-01 by Big Gimper, on Flickr

There were studies and proposals made for an enlarged F-5F with a larger wing and two J97's to keep performance up while reducing wing loading to F-5A/B levels.  Upper management did not proceed with these because they can up through the service engineering organization.

[elmayerle]

Just a thought, an afterburning version of Honda's small turbofan engine as a replacement fo J85 turbojets?

Repurposing F-5F's as OF-5F's with the RF-5A nose in place of the radome and the guns and cameras replaced by the contents of a suitable EO pod (keep it all in Northrop adn use the guts from a Lightning pod).