Built by Northrop and McDonnell Douglas for the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program in the late 1980s, the YF-23 Black Widow II was a fifth-generation fighter jet that ticked all the ...
Northrop’s YF-23 “Black Widow” was the sleeker, stealthier, faster entry in the Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter ...
“The ATF will have the same tactical advantage over the F-15 that the F-15 has over the Goodyear blimp.” That 1986 comment by Northrop program manager Dell Jacobs was regarding the YF-23 Black Widow ...