F-22 vs F-35: See The Major Differences in The Raptor vs Lightning

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Should the Air Force Have Picked the F-23 Instead of the F-22?

Combat Posts 🇺🇸 on Instagram: "YF-23 Wasted Potential! The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter prototype technology demonstrator designed for the United States Air Force. Northrop built two YF-23A prototypes. In 1991, after extensive flight testing, the USAF announced that the Lockheed YF-22A won the airframe competition. (🎥 by @nathan34003) Seen on @sky.fighters"

April 25th 1992 – Test pilot Tom Morgenfeld climbs into the Second prototype Lockheed YF-22A, for a test flight. Most unfortunately, Tom disregarded a test-card that indicated requirements for the 2-D convergent-divergent thrust nozzles to be locked in position during this stage of tests flights. This would cause control surface actuators to hit rate limiters, causing commands to get out of synchronization in their execution... After attempting to initiate a go-around, the prototype F-22 commenc