The Advanced Tactical Fighter competition is often remembered as a clean win for the F-22 Raptor, but the losing prototype, Northrop’s YF-23, has only grown in stature with time. As air combat shifts ...
Key Points and Summary - While many aviation fans believe the faster, stealthier YF-23 should have won the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition, a new analysis details the four key reasons it lost to ...
What You Need to Know: The Northrop YF-23, nicknamed “Black Widow II,” was a stealth fighter prototype developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Tactical ...
Japan, Britain, and Italy will have difficulty moving forward on a sixth-generation fighter because of the sheer complexity of designing one from scratch. But they could start with the proven YF-23 ...