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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 ...
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 ...
Destined to Fail: The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23, a fifth-generation stealth fighter developed in the late 1980s as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, competed ...
Jet Insight on MSNOpinion
The YF-23 Black Widow 2 was buried by politics in 1991, and now America is staring down the same catastrophic mistake with NGAD
The Air Force chose showmanship over superiority three decades ago, and the consequences are STILL haunting America's skies ...
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