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The Big Reason Why the YF-23 Black Widow II Won’t Ever Fly for the Air Force

YF-22 vs. YF-23 – The Hidden Weapons-Bay Edge That Decided History -Northrop’s YF-23 dazzled with speed and stealth, but ...
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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 of designing one from scratch. But they could start with the proven YF-23 ...
The National Interest

YF-23

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 ...
Aviation Week

YF-23 Designer Offers His Take On Boeing’s F-47 NGAD Configuration

Credit: Illustration by Colin Throm/AW&ST based on drawings by Darold B. Cummings/ForzAero. When the U.S. Air Force announced Boeing as the winner of the Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter ...
The National Interest

This Is the Odd-Looking Fighter That Could Have Replaced the F-22 Raptor

Both the Raptor and a fully operational F-23 would have carried eight air-to-air missiles internally—that was the Air Force requirement. Moreover, the operational jets were essentially identically in ...