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YF-23 Back from the Dead? The U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX Fighter Battle Is Just Getting Started

Key Points and Summary - A new piece of concept art from Northrop Grumman provides a speculative glimpse of its bid for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter. -The rendered image showcases a ...
The National Interest

YF-23: The Stealth Fighter The Air Force Missed Out On (Mistake?)

In the 1980s, the United States Air Force started hunting for a new kind of fighter that could dominate the latest generation of Soviet jets like the Su-27 and Mig-29. While the Soviet Union was less ...
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The YF-23 Black Widow II Stealth Fighter Still Haunts the U.S. Air Force

The YF-23 “Black Widow II” was a prototype stealth fighter that lost the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition to the F-22 Raptor. -Many experts and pilots believe the YF-23 was the superior aircraft, ...
The National Interest

The YF-23 Fighter Might Have Suffered the Same, Sad Fate as the F-22 Raptor

As the Cold War climaxed in the 1980s, the U.S. was engaged in an arms race with a hollowed-out Soviet Union. Despite having recently fielded fourth-generation fighters like the F-14, F-15, F-16, and ...