“The Lockheed team's design for the Navy Advanced Tactical Fighter (NATF), sometimes referred to as "NATF-22" or "F-22N" (the design was never formally designated), would have differed from the Air Force version in many ways. Because the NATF needed lower landing speeds than the F-22 for aircraft carrier operations while still attaining Mach 2-class speeds, the design would have incorporated variable-sweep wings; furthermore, the Navy placed greater emphasis on loiter time for fleet air defenserather than supercruise, so the variable-sweep wings also improved endurance. The fuselage shaping was similar, while the landing gears and arresting hook were strengthened for aircraft carrier landings; all of these changes would have resulted in a heavier, more complex, and more expensive aircraft. It retained four empennage surfaces and thrust vectoring nozzles, and the avionics would initially have been largely common with the F-22, although additional sensors and mission avionics had also been planned for maritime missions. The design would have had a similar weapons bay arrangement but with expanded weapons carriage, including the AIM-152 AAAM, AGM-88 HARM, and AGM-84 Harpoon.

While the Lockheed team would submit the NATF-22 design with its F-22 full-scale development proposal in December 1990, the Navy began backing out of the NATF program in late 1990 to early 1991 and fully abandoned NATF by FY 1992 due to escalating cost and thus the design never progressed beyond Dem/Val to full-scale development, or engineering and manufacturing development (EMD). Lockheed and Boeing would leverage aspects of the design, such as the variable-sweep wings, for several concepts for the Navy's Advanced-Attack (A-X) program, which later became the Advanced Attack/Fighter (A/F-X) program with added fighter capability, the successor to the canceled A-12 Avenger II; however, A/F-X would also be canceled as a result of the 1993 Bottom-Up Review due to post-Cold War budget pressure.”
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Dimensions:

Length - ~60.6 feet
Wingspan - ~59.1 feet
Height a ~15.6 feet

Performance:

Empty Weight - ~46500 pounds
Loaded weight - ~62800 pounds
Speed - Mach 2.2
Max Altitude - ~50,000 feet
Max Range - ~1600 miles

Armament:

1 M61 20mm Gatling gun
2 AIM-9 Short ranged Air to Air missiles
6 AIM-120 Long ranged Air to Air missiles

Cockpit

Tooltips are available for each button, so hover your cursor to determine what they do.

Activation Groups:

AG1 - Canopy
AG2 - Refueling Probe
AG3 - Tail Hook
AG4 - Lights
AG5 - N/A
AG6 - Jettson external stores
AG7 - N/A
AG8 - Enable wing sweep and TVC

Aircraft Handling Notes:

When preforming carrier landings, approach from a shallow angle, at around 180-150 knots. Enable thrust vectoring for best results.

External Drop Tanks

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Low-Vis

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Low-Vis with external drop tanks

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