Was the most stealth-optimized fighter ever produced just too far ahead of its time? In the late 1980s, Northrop’s YF-23 “Black Widow II” protruded from the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program as ...
Built by Northrop and McDonnell Douglas for the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program in the late 1980s, the YF-23 Black Widow II was a fifth-generation fighter jet that ticked all the ...