National Security Journal on MSN
The YF-23 Black Widow stealth fighter still haunts the US Air Force
Five Ways The YF-23 Black Widow Was Better Than The F-22 Raptor The Advanced Tactical Fighter program was born in 1981 out of ...
Summary: In the 1980s, the U.S. Air Force sought to replace the F-15 with a new fighter jet, spurring a competition between the YF-23 and YF-22. Northrop Grumman’s YF-23, known for its stealth and ...
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Jet Insight on MSNOpinion
The YF-23 Black Widow 2 lost because Northrop built the better airplane but Lockheed sold the better story
The YF-23 Black Widow 2 was FASTER, STEALTHIER, and more lethal than anything flying today, yet politics and Pentagon showmanship buried it in a museum while China mass-produces stealth fighters at ...
In the decade and a half since it first entered service, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor has been an air superiority fighter without equal, but that hasn’t always been the case. For a short time in ...
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