Occasional reminder that they picked the wrong plane

holy fuck i didn't know how much i needed this plane until now

>>34900911
>>34900946
But that thing is uglier

>>34900911
Yf23 a shit

Arguably not the case.

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>>34900955
>>34900960
>>34900963
STOP INSULTING MY PLANEFU REEEEEEE

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thicc

>>34900911
>picked the wrong plane
To make less than 200 of? Eh.
Also nice Bush trips.

>>34900984
hawt

F-22 and YF-23 were rather pointless planes at the end of the day.

>>34901035
Its all fun and games until Jing-Sheng downloads the plane you spent years developing

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>>34900911

>>34901066
Who needs weapons when you can just buzz over the enemy and drive them all suicidal with the noise

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>>34900963
>lower rcs
>better supercruise

the change in max g is what really killed it, structurally speaking the 22 is better, especially with regards to payload distribution.

>>34901095
I didn't say that it wasn't better in certain respects, I said it was arguable that they made the right choice.

The F-22 was simply a lower risk choice with attributes that meant it would be useful even if there was a huge leap in radar performance.

>>34901035
>at the end of the day.
Yes, but not at te beginning. Had the Soviets not collapsed at the time, the USAF would be armed with F-22s and B-2s, the Navy would have more than 3 Seawolves, CVNs would have F-14D/E/F and so on. Once the high-end threat disappeared the need for cutting-edge high-cost systems dissipated.