YF-23 The World's Only INVISIBLE airplane 

f-22's are less stealth than slower than the yf-23's, but more agile than the yf-23's

No shit

happiest mlg noob noscoper PAV 2 was the fastest with it's General Electric engines and could super cruise faster than mach 1.8

YF-23 is more like a little fast bomber than a fighter, is like the continuation of the family B-52, B1, B2 and this one.

The agility difference between the two was minimal the thrust vectoring didn't make much of a difference for the F22 they both achieved the same 70degree aoa. The difference was the Northrup team wasn't allowed to say the flight capabilities at the time because the numbers were so good the air force literally didn't believe them. The big difference was the huge canted vertical stabilizers don't have flaps they actually fully rotate

Invisible means 'not visible to the eye.' The use of 'invisible' to say 'not detectable by radar' is hyperbole. Furthermore, it *is* detectable by radar. It is just less detectable. Between the two of us, I am clearly not the dumbass. You can keep your personal insults to yourself, along with the rest of your worthless, ignorant words. Thanks.

+Robert Miles Actually "invisible" can mean very different things depending on context. Duke University researchers just invented an acoustic cloaking device that is "invisible to sonar". It isn't an impossible exaggeration, but rather an alternate definition, so the word hyperbole was inappropriate for your comment as well. Your first comment was clever and funny, but your second comment was neither. You're certainly not a dumbass, but that guy is indeed a prick.

+Robert Miles LOL Well I thought it was a funny comment.......

+Robert Miles yes, you maybe have an invisible brain due to it was covered by skull & skin but i can see clearly that your brain is empty but air on it.

Youre so stupid its not even near funny

Military Update I doubt it this plane was meant to beat the f 22 in air superiority the f 35 is multi role so it isn’t a feasible replacement

It’s a good plane, but it wouldn’t have the same capabilities, mainly VTOL

F35 cannot be replaced.

@@innovationaviator9125 F35 Rand study Cant fight Cant Run visible in IR double negative in Rand.

Yeahh no. 2 completely different planes for completely different purposes.

Not on a radar screen you can't. It shows up as a spider. Fact.

+InVisibleTechTV F22 is better

+J Y Probably you don't know that there was to prototipe of planes calle YF-22 and YF-23, YF-22 wins and become the actual F-22, YF-23 programm lose and was deleted, but they are two different planes.

+InVisibleTechTV " Not on a radar screen you can't. It shows up as a spider. Fact. " Is that fact huh, it will literally look like a spider on the radar screen? That's a HUGE blip compared to the little dots that usually show up then and whats more, everyone will know what plane it is because of its distinctive "spider" outline on the radar.

Isis and Taliban didn't see it,maybe you can help them .lmao

That can be fixed, but the price itself remains the same unfortunately

I bet it would be same as the F 22 because it doesn't have horizontal stabilizers.

@@esdsohx1196 what are you talking about? Go warch something about the concept of V-tails

The f-22 goes 3044 mph

+Dark Knight LOL it only goes 1498mph... I mean you more than doubled it LMAO...

+Brian V Where do you people get this info? The F22 isn't the fastest plane in the US, it just has ability to break sound barrier without using Burners which was a key to the design, speed isn't everything when you can see them before they see you, and you can fire and forget and such.

+Dark Knight The YF-23 was much faster during both supercruise *and* full afterburner top speed runs

so did the f-23 (the fighter had structural issues and the vtol was crap) F22 won the competition fairly it was easy to see just watch the documentary it didnt take alot of effort to see whichh was th better fighter. F22 every time.

Ever heard of money?

The Privileged Capitalist I'm sure you have. Besides no one said they were cheap. It pays to be the World's Police.

The Privileged Capitalist I know OF money....Hahahahahahahahahhhhh......But seriously. It would have been better to spend the money on this than the F-crappy5

@Trionity Ir; You are absolutely right. The should have built both planes. The F22 capacity is so limited but it would be perfect replacement for the F16. The F23 could take on large formations of attackers with vane thrusted missiles and an ideal fighter bomber to replace the F15E. Just look at geometry of the F23 tells you this plane can dog fight.

555calex The worrying part is how they built so few F-22s.

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+Miguel Rodriguez If it's too expensive and not adapted to the needs (like the F22) it goes away.

Cocandre yes, it goes away from the general public. But this plane was too good to just throw away. I'm sure many of the new technologies incorpotated were not discarded, specially if the system was considered revolutionary. A similar case: the f18 lost to the f16 in their contest for the USAF's light fighter, in the 70s. But the loser became the navy's premier fighter. Also, when a weapon is too expensive, the brass at the Pentagon will not necessarily discard it ALL the time, just like the f35.

+Miguel Rodriguez Actually a YF-17 lost to the F-16, the loser became the F-18, which is actually a heavier and slightly larger jet.

+mapanggulo Yeah, after reading up on the contest between yf-22 and yf-23 it seems the testing criteria we're getting weighted for jobs that neither of the planes ultimately ended up being built for ( navy pulled out of the program ). I've heard this plane might have overall, been less expensive and just as capable ( if not more so due to the criteria ). Strange how these were evaluated.

True. It's in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

Dan White Kindof sad

Dan White - Yes, that was sad. When this plane lost the competition, I guess his life was over. That's just stupid.

Kind of like Votes for Joe Biden......

+Wind Squid when was this revealed?

+Kentos Freshmaker Can ye read?

www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/12/1464322/-Cutting-ONE-Pentagon-Boondoggle-Would-Allow-Everyone-To-Go-To-College-for-Free-Thru-2040?detail=facebook

I read it from somewhere but the us chose the f22 over the 23 was due to f22 more 'conventional' design as the 23's was very different than the planes the air force had

+Wind Squid Yeah, can you cite your sources?

James Barclay Also in Role & yaw authority at high Alpha, the YF-23 exceeded the YF-22. Which 2D TVC does not help. TVC is mostly useful for trim, bleeding speed quickly to reach optimal corner IAS, and for enhanced authority post-stall pitch authority, though. Just from a big fully moveable tail plane like on the the YF-23 without problems like tail slide from TVC . I doubt Northrop would have done silly things like put magnesium access panels on a carbon composite frame & cause unbelievable corrosion problems like Lockheed did .

The F-22 is faster, and has thrust vectoring engines for pulling REALLY intense maneuvers. The F-23 has much longer range and better stealth: it would have worked better as ground-attack aircraft like the F-117, but the F-22 performs better as a fighter.

Jacob Hunter ...Or maybe it was because NG already had the B-2 contract? :P

Jacob Hunter Plus the F-22 is faster - thats incorrect. the F23 was shaped the way it was because it conformed to the whitcomb area rule, unlike the 22. the PUBLICLY STATED speed of the F22 is greater than the PUBLICLY STATED speed of the YF23. BTW the T/W: of the 22 is 1.08 ... ur wrong there too

youwanttoliveforever I stated the 23's ratio, not the 22's. The F-23's T/W ratio is 1.36 The F-22's T/W ratio is 1.08 Neither of us are wrong.

Pablo Jay well if the russians and chinese have a plane that looks like the YF23 it just means northrops has a spy or they don't have internet security lol

Michael Thelen Yeah is the 612 billion just the minimum cost for the f-35 program........I heard its going really well recently.

Your showing me the cost of 4 or 5 f-35s XD. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II

pauljackowacko552 he said bilion not million million-1,000,000 bilion-1,000,000,000

***** Hes telling me the f-35 is 800 million which the program isnt.....but its worth billions.

pauljackowacko552 the program itself costs alot thats why it takes so many years to build but the plain costs around 100 million

F u

Benjamin Sales eh why?

Still never gave me an answer Mr. Sales.

AMERICA IS THE SMARTEST IN THE WORLD FOR MAKING THE BEST,,EVERYONE TRIES TO COPY AMERICAN AND STEAL OUR TECHNOLOGY,,AND WHY THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT

Absolutely. The defense industry built out the f-22 and now they can waste our resources doing it all over again .

Cost overruns killed the black widow.

Politicians messed with its production

daniel ngimoe it never went into production...

***** Haha! Your funny. I am not Israeli.

***** :P

+Elijah920 build by indians and chinese from silicon valley

+harris3693 Actually, the term is, "For all intents and purposes," NOT, "In all intensive purposes." The correct phrasing is clear and sensible, your version is neither.

+Paul Erricson Yeah, and facebook is Irish. Americans just love Europe if it’s about grabbing more money and evading taxes in the US ;)

NEVER!

Shadow Victory Ray Why not? Just imagine this plane(F-32) and the F-22 together hunting Foreign planes in the skies? It will be Bad Ass!

Alvin d ooohh, so u meant to replace the f-35 with f-23?

Shadow Victory Ray No, Just add the F-35.

My bad. I thought u meant to replace f-22 with f-23! xd

Mere tool to deliver death to humans. And you praise to it. How disgusting.

***** Mere tools to stop aggressive nations from fukking with our interests. If you dont like to bad. You'd be in chains if all our weapons were gone. Muslim chains. Poor fool. Thats the world we live in. People are aggressive and if you cant protect yourself you die. What world do you live in dipshit.

***** We are the ones who run it dipshit. Its the way it is. Keep telling yourself how tough you are. Poor fool. Take your country out in a week. To easy. Wah wah wah. Baby cant accept hes living under the USA.

uh guys? Sean is wrong because we don't have infinite money and the F22 was proven to be more useful, so it would be pointless. Arthur is stupid because he doesn't realize that there are other countries out there that would take us down if we just sat here with our thumbs up our butts, defenseless. We need to keep making new things. P.S., If the USA is just a dumb teenager, then how is it so powerful? How do you expect to just invade out of nowhere?

Assault0137 The YF-23 is not a waste of money. The F-35 is and of course money isnt endless thats why we should of built a proven design and not started from the ground to the tune of 470 billion of those endless dollars you mentioned. Must of went over your head right. I understand honey girl.

greasedog ....... Maxine Waters said no.

@@davidsherburne8429 Actually it was Sam Nunn. He caused Lockheed to move to Georgia to Produce the F-22.

Its completed 1700 combat missions,its 1700 and 1......:) iT RAN OUT OF TARGETS...

Stacy Clarkson One is enough to give the other guy your technology.

bravo!!!

Big Serb So true.

Big Serb its not that simple.....If a nation has to imitate,that means its always playing catch up...It like trying to win a foot race,with 2 feet in a bucket...The f117 is 1970s American tech...

There are several different kinds of radar. One of which is the radar signal that is generated by the aircraft to detect adversaries. B2 and F117 can be detected by tracing their radar transmissions. The YF23 had stealth radar transmissions. It was totally silent. And it had far superior engine cooling so its heat signature was minimal compared to the other two.

+JEnkins91589 Your comparing apples to oranges. The F-117A has been retired for a few years now, although people still claim they see them from time to time. The F-117A was also one of the worlds first stealth aircraft (circa 1981), but from what I've gathered it was actually quite unstable in flight. The B-2 strategic bomber, is just that a bomber and is part of the U.S nuclear delivery system, it's made to stay in the air for quite literally days at a time. If you want actual stealth fighters then you have this as well as the F-22 and now the F-35. I also heard that the F-117A was more of a bomber in a sense, not really the kind of plane you'd want to be in during a dog fight. The F-117A/B-2 were designed to infiltrate enemy airspace, inflict maximum damage by hitting specific targets and then GTFO.

XyroNO I wasnt exactly comparing them for their jobs, I was comparing because the title is invisible airplane, in which they all fit.

+XyroNO stealth has been proven to have been common knowledge as far back as ww2,..it just took the good ol..u.s..with her deep pockets to develop Hav-blue..then the F-1''17...nighthawk wich came in a fighter version an a bomber version...the thinking was even though it was sub sonic if u loaded it with aim 9's..an sidewinders....u had a very effected stand off target engaigment capaility...but the concept of a fighter/bomber that could not manuver bothered military pentagon officials so much...we developed some that could

Psygnosis DD yea...lol..war is practical,,U.S....military is not...an we all watch to many movies....in Russia they look ,shoot,,an you die..lol...agreed,,stealth is BULLSHIT.

+Dan Kelly You're kidding, right? That would be the A-12, overt version of the SR-71.

Tim Mullins I said it's the fighter version, not the next SR-71.

+Dan Kelly There was never a fighter version. Interceptor, yes. The A-12 was a single seat reconnaissance plane. The YF-12, was a two-seater with radar and fire control systems installed. It never saw service.

***** wow what a waste of money

Ya. But. We. Could See. Her. Ta. Ta's 😍

You Just tell that to China when they are Flying over your house at will and we can not stop them!

Rohan vescovinator boast all you want but labor without God and we labor in vain, a night watchman guarding the walls without god guards in vain. fact this country can now be defeated in war because we have lost the blessings of the mighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God raised this country up from nothing against all odds, building a country like this was remarkable and being born here was like winning the lottery because most of the humans on this planet but not all struggle day to day just finding food. YOU godless and worshipers of false gods you have doomed this country. Your blindness will not allow you to see how good we had it before you all abandoned Jesus and embraced doctrines of death. Enjoy your hell hole you made for us all.

lol

They go hand in hand. A strong economy will not stop an advancing army, another army will. And that army is maintained and supplied with... a strong economy.

very true also allies are very important too that is why the Soviet Union collapsed because it only force and military control not a true alliance like the west did this is why in the end putin will fail his power is base on the same structure of the past

that would be quiet scary watching a man squatting mid air

Zo Mi fuck off troll

Juuso Peltoniemi well, it was news on croatian and german media, not on serbian. and im happy with just one f-117a. for kosovo you do not worry. as i see it became just fine "state". drug cartels, main route for europe, human trafficking, kidnapping, human organs trafficking... and all protected by nato. just give it a time...

Srebrnic1 you will need to elaborate that, i do not have clue what are you talking about. if you are talking about srebrenica, please go inform your self lil better. you will find surprising informations what are shoving up on surface this days...

Zo Mi Why is there always a east european trolling about technology. You paste your jets together with super glue.

tlpendar we did actually, we glued dozens of cardboard planes and western technology used dozens of $100k+ worth missiles to destroy them plus cost of flight. same as tanks and other equipment. best was imitation of radars, that was fun to watch. modified satellite dish with lil electronic total worth of $2-3000 and western technology send another $100k+ worth of missile. :) just on destroying fake radars, western technology spent more than $5mill and im sure that is low end. anything else?

p1t1o “Whatever happened to the JSF-35 🍋 Jet?!!!”

i cant see it idk why the video is just camera angles of the sky and intervies

Hahaha thats funny... but I think they called it black widow (if you were reffering to black widow)because of the spider that's named black widow cause the females tend to eat/kill (idk about eating im not sure...) the male after they mate in which she becomes a..... widow! Simple (well at least thats what I think, idk I could be wrong...)

Well it's a scary name, and the thing looks like a spaceship, or something from another world...

Wow, I never knew that. Sounds like we might have to use it soon

Nate Henderson It was cancel. It is the Northrop alternative to F-22, obviously it wasn't selected.

Hmm sounds like they made a big mistake choosing the F 22

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George Colvin I agree the raptor is much better locking and with the flaps on its turbines is has a greater maneuverability

I mean looking

George Colvin. the F22 is the beat ...

George Colvin I agree George. But the YF-22 was still a brilliant design. Very fast and better all-aspect stealth in the X band.

Skyfire I was wondering when somebody would finally get that! lol

Skyfire Who needs stealth when you can fly at mach 7?..............................................who fly 7 mach ?.Russia prepare production. MIG41 near future . speed 4.2 mach.

yeah right First fix Sukhoi T50 ......................what fix ? T-50 going next year production ,

yeah right limited ? 250 X 8 new gen A/A missiles radius 200 km = ???????????? NATO PLAES

yeah right end how many F-22 was made first year , 180 ?

Well, its never been tested in combat has it.

The F35 is so expensive and complicated to repair that they almost can't afford to keep one in the air. There have been other "uh Ohs" for US aviation: the F111B whose swept wings kept getting stuck on retraction attempts, the XB70 bomber that looked great, but kept crashing, the Navy "Pogo" that had to be landed on its trail and had bed casters for wheels, and Lockheed's attempt at a jet powered Flying Saucer. There was the most preposterous of all, the AB1 atomic powered bomber. And if you think we were doing weird stuff you should have seen what Russia and France attempted.

Lockheed Martin F-35 is actually an updated Soviet Yakovlev 141 built as a prototype that never made it into production as it lost out to the SU 27 series during the Soviet military's product development cycle in the late 80's early 90's. Look for yourselves its not a secret.

sure we are hater, cause u country destroy other country, fking yankkk

wrong. most of the tech the Yanks claim they invented they stole from other countries. computors and internet was invented by allan turing a british scientists in the 1930,s. Out of all the major countries the USA was the last to get a jet plane. Britain had jet planes in the 1930,s. yanks didnt get them till the early 1950,s. Britain had jets flying by 1933. But due to budget cuts and lack of jet fuel they didnt enter service till 1944. Recent figures show the USA is the most religios of all the NATO countries. they have the lowests education, highest crime rates, worst health care and lowest on tech. they r about 30 years behind on tech to all the other NATO countries and lowest morals. Being x brit army we planned what would happen if the soviets attacked NATO. the result was USA would be wiped out in less than a week. Thats due to very poor training very poor equipment and poor disapline. The soviets alone without the other warsaw pact countries outnumbered NATO 100 planes to 1 500 -1 on tanks. the soviets tanks and planes were also far higher quality than the US ones. in tests we worked out only the british and german armies could stand up against the soviets. but even then we wouldnt of lasted more than a month. The soviets made it clear they had no fear of the yanks. the only thing that held them back was fear of the british and german military. In a war u need weapons that r cheap and fast to replace not very expensive weapons that r very hard to replace. Whats the point in spending millions on 1 plane that can get shot down by a very cheap anti air missle? The Iraqis shot down several stealth bombers using very cheap obsolete russian anti air missles. Whats the point in having a plane that has to spend 30 hrs in maintance between each mission before it can fly another mission? 1 EMP blast can take out every weapon the yanks have in seconds due to their reliance on computors to work. My unit had computerised systems but we rarely used them cause we knew the danger of EMP weapons taking them out. so we trained to use older systems that we can use without all the tech. Russia has EMP weapns that cant be detected or stopped once fired. They dont need to drop a nuke to get the EMP its just a radio wave they launch from satelites. no warning and no way to block it. USA has them as well. its what causes the power failures in the US as they r test firing them and it knocks out power lines and power stations. Example from WWII spitfires were expensive to build and took a long time to repair them. 2k spits were built nearly all were shot down. hurricanes fast and cheap to build. 20k built 1k shot down. Spits could only operate in europe cause other places were not compatable with the design and the airfields had to be very flat and smooth. hurricanes could fly from just about any field and could operate in any climate. Development of the spit started in 1933 and was taken out of servuce in 1945. Hurricane development started in 1916 and r still in service to this day but under diff names. its currenty called the eurofighter. other names the hurricane used was hart, fury, typhoon and tempest. all the same plane just redesigned and upgraded. With the fury they just took off the top wing. lowerd the bottom wing made it bigger and altered the engine cowling to fit in the merlin engine. When a spit got hit by bullets it took weeks to repair it and get it back in the sky. They would have to use a welding torch to cut out the damaged section them get another section sent over from the factory which usualy meant making it 1st. Hurricanes they just used a bit of wood glue and a wooden plug and filled the hole in then glued a bit of cloth over it. on avargae a hurricane only took about 30 mins to repair refuel and rearm before it could take off again. spit usualy took several hrs to rearm and refuel without doing repairs. Even though the spit got all the glory from the battle of britain they were actualy very poor in dogfights against the ME109,s. the only advantage they had was they were 2 miles an hr faster and could climb faster. but the ME109 could dive faster and turn faster. Hurricanes were slow but could out turn the ME109 which is whats needed in a dog fight the ability to out manouver the other plane. In a combat test done in asia a couple of years ago they put the F35, F22, F18 and F16 up against the russian migs and SU,s. no contest the russian planes won hands down. the yank planes were blown out of the sky before they even spotted the russian planes. So much for stealth lol. At least the F16 got a few shots off before they went down but failed to hit anything. the F35 and F22 didnt even know what hit them at close dog fighting range let alone BVR.

michael henderson see

those rumours are just that. rumours. and no. it didn't performed better. performance is measured across many fields and no way whatsoever that it was better in everything. also hot rod is not a factor.

The YF-23 only had enough internal payload room for 6 air2air missles. It is doubtful it can be used as a bomber. YF23 supposely lost because its rival's team had a better management team , whatever that means.

mrchie888 like internal bays had anything related with bombers. wake up. ww II is over. we are in 2014. there's no such a thing as a fighter that can't drop bombs.

riskinhos You have no clue do you? The point of the internal bays is so the aircraft maintains its stealth abilities. This is refering to the OP thinking that the YF-23 will be revive as a bomber.

mrchie888 B-52 must be a fighter since it carries loads of external bombs and missiles. as for the revive as a bomber it's ludicrous since it has the same capability as the f-22. that's just retarded.

My feelings remain as thou I said this a second ago, rarher than a year ago! #teamusa

sta pricas ti budalo,kaki ce mala srbija srusiti ovi?

sta pricas ti budalo,kaki ce mala srbija srusiti ovi?

+Adnan Avdic - Isto kao i F117, raketom i modifikovanim radarskim sistemom. Nemoj da se brecaš mnogo da nije bilo Srbina Nikole Tesle možda još ne bi imao struju u svom domu. I obaranje F117 je činjenica i Nikola Tesla je činjenica, neću da te nazivam pogrdnim imenima to je ispod mog nivoa. Pozdrav.

ja Nikolu poszujem mnogo i smatram jednim od najvecih umova svijeta,ali malo ste previse umisljeni,US bi vas unistio za par sekundi

Lol we've been flying missions in Serbian airspace for years. You haven't seen us yet and were not even hiding. Lol Serbian military is a joke we have private company's here in the US that could take over your country if wanted..but it's shit who would want to.

The MH370 is in a hanger along with other craft

An airplane made out of Bigfoot and loch Ness skin? Yaas. It even blurs photos

The F-22 was chosen over the F-23 because it presented less development risk. The same goes with the Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 engines over the General Electric YF120, they presented less risk in development.

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6041321as sure?

He has comed

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