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Key Points and Summary – Lockheed’s YF-22 wasn’t the inevitable winner of the Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter contest. -Northrop’s YF-23 “Black Widow II”...
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Key Points and Summary – Lockheed Martin may have lost the F-47 NGAD competition, but it is not done shaping the future of airpower....
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Key Points and Summary – The YF-23 “Black Widow II” lost the 1991 Advanced Tactical Fighter fly-off to what became the F-22 Raptor and...
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Key Points and Summary – Northrop’s YF-23 Black Widow II lost the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition to the YF-22, but many analysts still argue...
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Article Summary – Blocked from buying the F-22, Japan turned to an indigenous air-superiority fighter, launching the Mitsubishi-led F-3 program and soliciting designs from...
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Key Points and Summary – Northrop Grumman’s YF-23 “Black Widow II” famously lost the Advanced Tactical Fighter contest to Lockheed’s F-22, but the story...
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Key Points and Summary: The YF-23 Fighter Legend -Northrop’s YF-23 “Black Widow” was the sleeker, stealthier, faster entry in the Air Force’s Advanced Tactical...
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Key Points and Summary – New concept art from Northrop Grumman (NG) for the Navy’s 6th-generation F/A-XX fighter shows a “family resemblance” to its...
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Key Points and Summary – A second prototype of China’s three-engine Chengdu J-36 has appeared near CAC’s Chengdu airfield, roughly ten months after the...