YF-23 Black Widow II
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The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an aircraft which saw numerous combat and export success. It is being exported to Canada, Australia,Switzerland and Malaysia. The F/A-18 Hornet traces its direct ancestry to the Northrop Cobra, a twin engine multimission fighter design developed for the export market in the late 1960s.The YF-17 failed to make it for the airforce's selection but subsequently end up to be a naval aircraft.
YF-22 is chosen over the YF-23 for the Advanced Tactical Fighter(ATF) programme. So do you forsee that the YF-23 will subsequently be developed into a new operational combat aircraft just like the F/A-18? However, some may say that the future of aerial combat is UCAV. Comments please.
YF-23 Black Widow II:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-23.htm
YF-17 Cobra:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-17.htm -
nw got proposed FB-23.....
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I think the F23 looks better than the F22. But read somewhere the performance of the 22 was better hence the selection.
In some where, just glad that it isn't Boeing that was selected. Think it's good that there are at least two companies that are involved in aviation in the States for competition sake. -
some got say bcos the production of f22 had started so they decided to puruse with it... kinda bias
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the original P-61 Black Widow all-weather tactical night fighter
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Quite unlikely. The F-18 was a success because the US Navy was not comfortable with the single engine F-16 at that time.
Currently the two major services are already involved with the F-35. Don't think there will be sufficient interest or funds to revive the F-23. -
Yeah, I loved it when the F-23 appeared on GI.Joe series!