The Northrop YF-23

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@wilsonrawlin8547 11 ай бұрын

Such a magnificent aircraft with insane potential. I still don't understand why this tech was not pursued. It defies ration.

@bryanhoppe1481 7 ай бұрын

The rational was based on the fact that both aircraft met and exceeded the requirements and Lockheed Martin had the better project management as stated by the former USAF chief engineer.

@timbermicka 6 ай бұрын

Northrop were behind schedule and overbudget on the B-2 program. Plus the USAF wanted ATF to be extremely agile (at the time everyone jumped on the TVC bandwagon, Northrop did not)

@vlogmaster9568 5 ай бұрын

Bribery, a whole lot of bribery. We are talking about Lockheed after all.

@bryanhoppe1481 5 ай бұрын

Cessna could have made a better plane than NG

@bryanhoppe1481 5 ай бұрын

@@vlogmaster9568 Who did they bribe?

@bjorn2625 Жыл бұрын

Daym, that YF-23 looking so fine, even after all these years.

@oneway1512 Жыл бұрын

@sacresula 10 ай бұрын

Never will understand the F22 fanboy saying she's ugly.

@thuydoan7496 10 ай бұрын

Not a fanboy of F-22, but this fighter jet is ugly.

@sacresula 10 ай бұрын

@@thuydoan7496 You blind

@battleoid2411 10 ай бұрын

@@thuydoan7496 What do you consider a good looking fighter then?

@thuydoan7496 10 ай бұрын

@@battleoid2411 The F-22 is certainly a very good looking fighter jet compared to the YF-23. The F-22's design is a derivative of the F-15, which is also a good looking fighter jet, but with an outdated design. 👍

@FaraloSOUTHAUS 8 ай бұрын

@@thuydoan7496How is it derivative from another manufacturer's aircraft? I don't think Boeing would allow that.

@nitroxide17 7 ай бұрын

One of the engineers said they had so many improvements that were planned for the production version. The removal of the thrust reverser would’ve improved speed and stealth even more.

@mansurazeez2229 11 ай бұрын

A design ahead of its time. The best looking fighter design. Period! 👍👍

@saratok7539 6 ай бұрын

This is peak , maybe already a third time watching this. The plane , the clips , the music...

@oneway1512 6 ай бұрын

ty ty

@merdith6 11 ай бұрын

I'm still sad it didn't win the contract

@Ripa-Moramee 11 ай бұрын

Don't be. It was the inferior aircraft for what the USAF wanted and needed. Plus, the current F-22 looks infinitely better.

@oneway1512 11 ай бұрын

@@Ripa-Moramee would be interesting to see how the 23 would have been upgraded over the years

@Ripa-Moramee 11 ай бұрын

@@oneway1512 Avionics and additional radar absorbing material definitely would have been one of them. But apart from that, not likely much. It would have ended up the same way the f-22 is now, although the F-22 did quite drastically improve from its prototype to what it is today. Even the difference between the prototype and the first production f-22's is noticeably different.

@Accuaro 11 ай бұрын

@@Ripa-Moramee Hard disagree, YF-23 looks way better aesthetically. They even had plans on updating the frame to be even better. The pilot who flew both said they both manoeuvre the same without needing thrust vectoring. YF-23 tail fins were the same size as the F-22 wings. It was purely political that it lost. With the transition to BVR the whole thing about needing to point your plane in the direction of the enemy to fire was pointless, even more so after the cold war ended. YF-23 would have been the superior plane then and now as it is more stealthy.

@Ripa-Moramee 10 ай бұрын

@@Accuaro You can disagree all you want, it doesn't change the facts. Firstly, how does a oddly shaped dorito winged hotdog with a extended cockpit not apart of the main fuselage look even slightly as good as the F-22 we see now? It doesn't, and the fact you are incapable of acknowledging this shows your ignorance on the subject. If that wasn't evident enough already, your claim that they maneuvered the same certainly is as it is literally the primary reason it was selected over the YF-23, as the ATF was outlining a stealthy dog fighter to combat the maneuverable SU-27 and MIG equivalent that had been spotted by spy's, which worried the US military. So, as such they invented something better than what the USSR claimed they had, which, obviously was nowhere near as good as what they claimed so the US military as always, completely over compensated with the ATF program. If you actually had thorough research, you would know this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lX64fGVqZtqNfq8

@kiryu2281 2 ай бұрын

One of the sexiest aircraft my eyes has ever laid on

@AtroposLeshesis 10 ай бұрын

I actually worked on that planes network capability

@oneway1512 10 ай бұрын

good persec!!!

@Cocobrain26 11 ай бұрын

This plus the f22's thrust vectoring would be bad asssssss

@oneway1512 11 ай бұрын

+ all the modern upgrades the f22 has got

@wilsonrawlin8547 11 ай бұрын

They had already developed/designed the upgrade for it to 2D. It was the better platform and was not chosen and IDK why.

@alfredmakaveli6622 10 ай бұрын

@@wilsonrawlin8547 it was not as maneuverable as the f22..

@sfsorion2 3 ай бұрын

@@wilsonrawlin8547it was very expensive just to make one functioning model, too.

@VistokDB Жыл бұрын

YF 23 is beautiful❤

@TheNotSoRealAdachi 2 ай бұрын

"Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the Black Widow II..."

@TheNotSoRealAdachi 2 ай бұрын

I remember a post in an online newspaper about the YF-23, it was titled "Diamonds are not forever."...

@F15ESTRIKEEAGLE-iw9nl 8 күн бұрын

Yf 23 my beloved

@churichurinfunflais5269 11 ай бұрын

Nice video the yf 23 perhaps its more capable aircraft than the yf 22 i heard the velocity of that beast was really fast

@richierollinrocket2891 5 ай бұрын

Notice how he said “same engines as the YF-22” The y stands for prototype, so if what we know as the YF-23 was chosen then what we know as the F-22 would only be called the YF-22 and the YF-23 would commonly be called the F-23. When you see an American military aircraft with the designation Y before other letters then it’s a prototype.

@oneway1512 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for stating the obvious

@goober1107 5 ай бұрын

@@oneway1512 u mad?

@oneway1512 5 ай бұрын

@@goober1107 yes very mad

@TacticaLLR 10 ай бұрын

I love the YF-23 so much!

@TommyTactix 11 ай бұрын

Did you make it look like it was filmed in the 80s? It’s pretty gnarly. This a good edit.

@oneway1512 11 ай бұрын

hahah its because it was filmed in the 80s/90s i believe, didnt add any vfx other than some colour correction. thanks though!

@mfsusanoo7238 6 ай бұрын

Brutal yet elegant

@georgeperillo6421 Жыл бұрын

An aircraft designed 33 years ago still kicking butt in modern times. BTW the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 was the better aircraft.

@oneway1512 Жыл бұрын

makes you wonder if they made this 33 years ago what do they have now

@randomperson798 Жыл бұрын

USA so advanced it literally made better aircraft better than an su 57, raptor and a j20. Combined.

@thuydoan7496 10 ай бұрын

No it's not. YF-23 lacked thrust vectoring capabilities, and thus had poor maneuverability during a dog fight.

@konstantin-vi4hy 10 ай бұрын

@@thuydoan7496thats the worst argument ever. Its like saying a bear isnt stronger than humans because humans have guns. Dogfights are very unlikely because of missiles. Either the enemy will die before the dogfight or it will die to HOB missiles.

@thuydoan7496 10 ай бұрын

@@konstantin-vi4hy Are you kidding me ? Dog fighting is so important in air to air combat that it makes a huge difference between winning and losing in order to to gain air dominance.

@picklerick7953 Жыл бұрын

Thats one fine looking death dispenser

@TRPilot06YT 6 ай бұрын

Remember what they took from you

@lunokhod3937 9 ай бұрын

sci-fi is real, and we almost had it

@BEANBOYOBEANITH 5 ай бұрын

then it would just be science. with that logic though, you know what is sci-fi? the F35s 😎😎

@skytyme7721 10 ай бұрын

The YF 23 is a superior aircraft

@11Tits 6 ай бұрын

correction it lost in the rate fight, its stealthier abilities were actually thermal related not RCS which was imporved on the f-22. yes the yf22 and f22 are completely different aircraft. faster well kinda. northrop didnt put limiters on their jet engines which made them drink fuel like no tomorrow. Not only that the yf-23 was taking longer to produce, was eating the budget way more then the yf-22 at the time and the yf-23 didnt really meet the radar preformance at the time due to its smaller raydome.

@SamFBM 5 ай бұрын

northrop grumman on top.

@oneway1512 5 ай бұрын

funny coincidence, just watched ur free bird video the other day lol

@MegaMRCHURRO 5 ай бұрын

We used to be a proper country

@BEANBOYOBEANITH 5 ай бұрын

And America still is. russia is run by the mafia, china is a dictatorship that makes their infrastructure out of toothpaste india's tallest mountain is probably made out of garbage australia is rampant with corruption and new zealand is basically having a civil war.

@vanrasheedmella8994 4 ай бұрын

@@BEANBOYOBEANITHThe illegal immigrants flooding to the US and the jews in New York being insecure about their religious identity, Yup The USA is a perfect country.

@ij4674 2 ай бұрын

@@BEANBOYOBEANITH A proper country with a Ponzi economic system where debts are so high that just interest payments on it exceeds military budget. And military budget itself is bloated with Mltry industrial complex charging exorbitant amounts for systems and companies like boieng has completely forgotten their engineering heritage. This won't go on for forever.

@BEANBOYOBEANITH 2 ай бұрын

@@ij4674 thatsy just corruption dude, and boeings are being grounded and all, and are paying the price.

@F15ESTRIKEEAGLE-iw9nl 8 күн бұрын

@@BEANBOYOBEANITH and North Korea is a dystopian fever dream of a country

@professionalsewerrat1695 7 ай бұрын

my beloved

@alfredmakaveli6622 Жыл бұрын

this is a 6th generation fighter

@thuydoan7496 10 ай бұрын

No it's not.

@FaraloSOUTHAUS 8 ай бұрын

No, it isn't, it's the basis for Northrop's entry into the NGAD, and it was more advanced than the YF-22 in several aspects, but it's a 5th gen, even the engineers would tell you that.

@ericwillis7127 7 ай бұрын

We probably will look back on the Grey Ghost YF-23 with YF120 variable-cycle engines as a portent of future 6th generation fighters. Prioritizing low radar observables, high supercruise efficiency for the large Indo-Pacific region, and BVR lethality over maneuverability.

@rusticmouse 11 ай бұрын

the YF-23 is even stealthier than the F-22 but it doesn't have the thrust vectoring capabilities like the raptor

@oneway1512 11 ай бұрын

dont need TVC if you can kill the enemy from 200mi away

@wilsonrawlin8547 11 ай бұрын

What he said and the designers had that designed as an option.

@nitroxide17 6 ай бұрын

What is the name of the song?

@oneway1512 6 ай бұрын

varo - imagine

@DarchoJandreoski-c2b 6 ай бұрын

ICEMAN from Staat USA / Texas 1991 Jahr

@LynxHelios8118 5 ай бұрын

Lynx Helios Alien Mom.

@diollinebranderson6553 Жыл бұрын

What is the song

@oneway1512 Жыл бұрын

VARO - IMAGINE the original vocals are by a rapper called ksuave

@LynxHelios8118 5 ай бұрын

Lynx Helios Alien

@charleshopkins3817 Жыл бұрын

👌🏻

@Ihave15childreninmybasement 6 ай бұрын

This should have won. Faster, stealthier, and equally maneuverable. Looks more badass though.

@11Tits 6 ай бұрын

@NeurodivergentSuperiority 4 ай бұрын

Double correction, the YF-23 looks like a pancake compared to the F-22

@AtroposLeshesis Жыл бұрын

Your welcome America

@AngelRodriguez-ge8os 5 ай бұрын

In my head-cannon, this and the F22 are both selected for serial production. The F35 is never born. The skies would be graced by elegant fighters never before seen, and supported long after their initial flights

@Astrawboy_NameAlreadyInUse 5 ай бұрын

I really want to like the aesthetics but lyrics kinda interrupt the mood tho 😭

@Dram1984 4 ай бұрын

“In reality” -shows simulator footage. (Don’t hate, just thought it was funny :p)

@oneway1512 4 ай бұрын

this is real footage from the 90s

@Dram1984 4 ай бұрын

@@oneway1512weird, this comment was supposed to be on a different video. Whoops.

@thuydoan7496 10 ай бұрын

What an ugly fighter jet. It had no thrust vectoring capabilities which made the Airforce choose the F-22 instead.

@konstantin-vi4hy 10 ай бұрын

Tell me. Where can you use thrust vectoring in BVR and general missions?

@thuydoan7496 10 ай бұрын

@@konstantin-vi4hy When you want to gain air dominance, you must rely on dog fighting abilities to gain the upper hand. Without thrust vectoring, your dog fighting abilities will be limited and restrained, it would then be very hard to defeat the adversary in achieving air superiority.

@Oxide21 10 ай бұрын

@@thuydoan7496Missiles won't care about your cool turns

@thuydoan7496 10 ай бұрын

@@Oxide21 Thrust vectoring can help dodge a missile attack. That's a very important ability to have on a fighter jet. It can also help the fighter jet quickly loop around the enemy, so that they can get into the attacking position instead. When you are in a dog fight, you will need to have excellent maneuverability or you'll be at a disadvantage.

@Oxide21 10 ай бұрын

@@thuydoan7496 Second missile won't care. You also lose a lot of energy doing these, so you'll only be putting yourself at an disadvantage. Maneuverability isn't the most important thing anymore.