Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN
The YF-23’s stealth-first bet lost then quietly defined the next air war
Stealth airpower increasingly rewards the side that can “see first, shoot first, kill first, and finally evade unscathed.” It ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN
The YF-23 still whispers what stealth fighters should become
“Was the Air Force picking a fighter or picking a future?” The Advanced Tactical Fighter competition was meant to be a clean, engineering-led sprint to replace the F-15 and maintain U.S. air ...
“Interestingly the YF-22 and YF-23 had exactly the same trimmed AoA of 60°. The YF-23 could do it without thrust vectoring. Those V-tails were very powerful especially when coupled to an unstable ...
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 ...
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