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Northrop’s YF-23 Black Widow II Might Be Making a Comeback
Japan, Britain, and Italy will have difficulty moving forward on a sixth-generation fighter because of the sheer complexity ...
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YF-23 Black Widow: The Fighter Plane That Almost 'Replaced' the F-22 Raptor
Summary and Key Points: The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 was a formidable contender ... and unofficially nicknamed ...
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Black Widow II
Northrop built two YF-23A prototypes: the first YF-23 (serial number 87-0800), Prototype Air Vehicle 1 (PAV-1), was rolled out on 22 Jun. 1990 and took its 50-minute ...
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Northrop YF-23
Summary: The YF-23, displayed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, represents a pinnacle of design that narrowly missed becoming the USAF’s premier fighter. In the late ’80s ...