why the YF-23 fighter was rejected | the reasons of rejecting the YF-23 fighter jet.

[@world_explorer-BD]

Such an attractive fighter jet 😍😍

[@paulrathbun82]

It really comes down to politics. The 23 was a better performer.

[@world_explorer-BD]

@@paulrathbun82 yeah , I wander that if Northrop Grumman could develop world's first stealth aircraft the B-2 spirit why the Northrop couldn't implement the yf-23 for U.S air force, everything matters to politics

[@scalywing1]

No it wasn’t. Everybody thinks that the YF-23 was clearly superior. The only real advantage that the YF-23 had was higher supercruise speed compared to the YF-22. But the production F-22 is faster than both. That is established fact, but everything else is just conjecture. The YF-22 and YF-23 were just prototypes. The YF-23 was never fully developed and therefore lacks a long, long list of features found in the fully developed F-22. It is impossible to say what a fully developed F-23 would have been capable of because it would have required many, many changes from the prototype YF-23. But people just say that the YF-23 must have been superior because it looked more exotic and futuristic. They ignore obvious facts.

[@world_explorer-BD]

@scalywing1 👍