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Navy’s F/A-XX May Revive YF-23’s Stealth Legacy
Northrop’s YF-23 team was made up of brilliant engineers,” remembered test pilot Paul Metz, among only a handful of pilots to ...
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We Visited the Last 2 YF-23 Black Widow II ‘Stealth’ Fighters
The YF-23 Black Widow II, the legendary stealth prototype that lost the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition to the F-22, ...
-The YF-23 competed in the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program during the Cold War but lost to Lockheed’s YF-22, which became the F-22 Raptor. The YF-23 was admired for its stealth, speed ...
The YF-23 had a top speed of 1,451mph to the YF-22’s 1,599mph, but the Northrop design had a longer range and a higher ceiling – 2,796 miles maximum range and a ceiling of 65,000 feet.
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