It was murdered by the politics...
It was such a masterpiece and it has so much more but most of the people dont know.
Problems that made the YF-23 pav 1 and 2 struggle during the tests was that the weapons bays werent ready for test due to failures and they decided to fit 8 missiles in the weapons bays but the plans were to fit 10 (two extra on the back weapons bay doors). The canopy(polycarbonate with stealth silica coating) didnt dry well too and had to be replaced once on the pav 2. And now about its maneuverability, the YF-23 had lower wing loading and more wing area than the YF-22 wich means it didnt need thrust vectoring to reach super maneuverability. The YF-23 had also large slats that could make it maneuver in slow speeds easily. The YF-22 needed thrust vectoring nozzles or it wasnt going to be super maneuverable. The nozzles made the YF-22's radar cross section in the back larger so it was less stealthy. YF-22 could fit 8 missiles (6x AIM-120 Amraam and 2x Aim-9m Sidewinder). And remember, YF-23 is still a prototype. Just imagine how succesful its final production version couldve been. I am really dissapointed why it didnt go into production. I hope it will revive like the YF-17 in to the F-18 soon.
@edensk Edensk, do you know how to delay countermeasures?
@AdmiralWheatman YF-23 Black Widow II
Really nice replica.
I like the simplicity of this aircraft. Really nice
@WiniMii Search it up
It was murdered by the politics...
It was such a masterpiece and it has so much more but most of the people dont know.
Problems that made the YF-23 pav 1 and 2 struggle during the tests was that the weapons bays werent ready for test due to failures and they decided to fit 8 missiles in the weapons bays but the plans were to fit 10 (two extra on the back weapons bay doors). The canopy(polycarbonate with stealth silica coating) didnt dry well too and had to be replaced once on the pav 2. And now about its maneuverability, the YF-23 had lower wing loading and more wing area than the YF-22 wich means it didnt need thrust vectoring to reach super maneuverability. The YF-23 had also large slats that could make it maneuver in slow speeds easily. The YF-22 needed thrust vectoring nozzles or it wasnt going to be super maneuverable. The nozzles made the YF-22's radar cross section in the back larger so it was less stealthy. YF-22 could fit 8 missiles (6x AIM-120 Amraam and 2x Aim-9m Sidewinder). And remember, YF-23 is still a prototype. Just imagine how succesful its final production version couldve been. I am really dissapointed why it didnt go into production. I hope it will revive like the YF-17 in to the F-18 soon.
@edensk how can you invert this formula?
floor(smooth(input, 1/a))
@Deandash You are smart, thanks dude
@Deandash how did you post those pictures?
I cant post pictures on my new build that i wanted to post.
Can you help me?
@GsjAndy i cant post pictures on my builds, how can you do that?
Radar Absorbing Coating