Key Points and Summary on F-22 History - The Northrop YF-23 "Black Widow II," a revolutionary stealth fighter prototype from the early 1990s, was arguably a superior aircraft to the YF-22, which would ...

The F-22’s holistic design—born of the Advanced Tactical Fighter program—prioritizes air dominance over ground attack.

Both the Raptor and a fully operational F-23 would have carried eight air-to-air missiles internally—that was the Air Force requirement. Moreover, the operational jets were essentially identically in ...

The low number of F-22s produced placed the unit cost at an astronomical $350 million per aircraft. But the heavy investment yielded a truly astonishing plane. The F-22 Raptor is likely going to be ...