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McDonnell Douglas/Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II (1990)

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Northrop YF-23 - The F-22 Competitor

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YF-23

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Wow, I have a tumblr now. So cool! Anyways, the YF-23 should’ve been chosen over the F-22 imo. Black Widow is a much better nickname than just Raptor.

“Ehhhh BuT wHaT aBoUt ThE bIrD tHeMe?”

Shut up. The F-16 is the Viper but I don’t hear anybody whining. The F-18 is called the goddamn Hornet.

“Erm, actually it’s called the Fighting Falcon-“

Nobody calls it that. It’s the Viper.

The project that would become the F-22 was meant to be a break from tradition, to be the pinnacle of air superiority. The F-35 can do a hell of a lot, but nothing fights other planes like F-22. And the YF-23 can do that even better, if the trials are to be believed.

And the name, Black Widow, it’s perfect. Potent, Deadly, Painful, and packed in a package you might not even see coming. That’s a stealth fighter, baby. Raptors might be a marvel of the bird world, but they spend most of their time picking off what’s on the ground. Honestly, it’s better suited as a name for the F-35 imo. If you want a name for an aerial assassin, Black Widow’s the way to go.

Yeah.

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The Space Shuttle Discovery at Edwards Airforce Base was greeted by the YF-23, SR-71 and the X-29 during its rollover concluding STS-64 in 1994.

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Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II

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27 August 1990. First flight of the Northrop YF-23 "Black Widow II" 87-0800 PAV-1, (or Northrop–McDonnell Douglas YF-23). American single-seat fighter aircraft prototype. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney YF119 engines.

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