Key Points and Summary – Northrop Grumman’s YF-23 “Black Widow II” famously lost the Advanced Tactical Fighter contest to ...

Japan turned to an indigenous air-superiority fighter, launching the Mitsubishi-led F-3 program and soliciting designs from U ...

The YF-23 and YF-22 were closely matched, and the aircraft may return in another form for the US Navy's F/A-XX.

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 ...

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 ...

Lockheed wins a 'flyoff' to build a new fighter plane. But is it needed? Across the defense industry, the only sound was the discreet click of fingernails being bitten. The declaring the winner of a ...

The Lockheed YF-22 and Northrop YF-23 both met U.S. Air Force requirements for the Advanced Tactical Fighter. Credit: U.S. Air Force Military aircraft competitions are decided by more than just design ...

The legacy of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet will one day, possibly sometime soon, come to a close. When both the Hornet and the Super Hornet finally leave the decks of aircraft carriers across ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Northrop YF-17, unveiled in April 1974, was a prototype jet fighter developed for the USAF's lightweight fighter program. This collection ...