Northrop Grumman’s YF-23 Prototype was by all accounts an impressive machine with speeds of Mach 2.25 and a high 1.36 thrust-to-weight ratio, yet the stealth fighter jet wound up “losing” an intense ...
-Northrop’s YF-23 dazzled with speed and stealth, but Lockheed’s YF-22 won the Advanced Tactical Fighter crown for pragmatic reasons. -Beyond thrust-vector agility and a more mature avionics suite, ...
In the 1980s, the United States Air Force started hunting for a new kind of fighter that could dominate the latest generation of Soviet jets like the Su-27 and Mig-29. While the Soviet Union was less ...