named after a WWII naval fighter(to stick with the US trend of naming 5th gen fighters after old fighters).

A proposed naval variant of the YF-23 known as the NATF-23 was considered as an F-14 Tomcat replacement. The original YF-23 design was first considered but would have had issues with flight deck space, handling, storage, landing, and catapult launching reasons requiring a different design. A NATF-23 wind tunnel test model DP527, tested for 14,000 hours, was donated by Boeing in 2001 to the Bellefontaine Neighbors Klein Park Veterans Memorial.

Features

Standard controls.

Automatic opening weapons bay.

Functioning thrust vectoring.

Notes

Due to the mechanics of the weapons bay, when placing other weapons in it, only put weapons that require a lock-on on the upper pylons, since they only deploy when a lock is acquired on a target.