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What Was The Northrop YF-17 Fighter Jet & Its Legacy?
The YF-17 evolved into the F/A-18 series, showcasing high performance and varied capabilities. The F/A-18 Super Hornet is a modernized version addressing the Hornet's shortfalls. The Northrop ...
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Northrop’s YF-23 Black Widow II Might Be Making a Comeback
And that was a key reason behind the Pentagon ultimately choosing the Lockheed YF-22 over the Northrop YF-23: these were supposed to be fifth-generation air superiority fighters. If the Cold War ...
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The Northrop F-5 Fighter Is Famous, But Not For the Reason You Think
the F-16 (and the YF-17, which would be reworked into the F/A-18) was developed in the hope of securing the Lightweight Fighter program; and so on. But in the late 1950s, the Northrop Corporation ...