The YF-22 won the competition and it became what ... one of the two competing planes to become the replacement for the F-15 Eagle, with the Air Force anticipating that it would buy 750 fighters ...

The YF-23 showcased better range ... looking for an airplane that was stealthy and performed better than the F-15 and F-16. The Air Force was worried about 4 th generation Soviet fighters such ...

What this means in relation to the YF-17 is simple. Northrop Aviation and the aforementioned makers of the F-15. McDonnell Douglas had a working relationship even before the beginning of the ...

The YF-23 competed in the Advanced Tactical Fighter ... So, despite the recent unveiling of fourth-generation fighters like the F-14, F-15, and F-16, the US kept pushing, for fear that the ...

The red, white and blue paint scheme was the original livery worn by the YF-16 prototype first flown in 1974. On May 15, 2024, the U.S. Air Force F-16 Viper Demonstration Team revealed a special ...

Credit: Illustration by Colin Throm/AW&ST based on drawings by Darold B. Cummings/ForzAero. When the U.S. Air Force announced Boeing as the winner of the Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter ...

The YF-17 Cobra was Northrop’s pitch for LWF. The prototype was tested against the General Dynamics YF-16 in the LWF fly-off competition and, as you probably know, the Fighting Falcon (as the F ...