AAHH😎...!!, YEAH.......!!,YO....................!!, ℹ️ THIS 5th 🧬GENERATION 🧬 FIGHTER F/A-22 RAPTORS ARE AN AMAZINGLY AWESOME👏 PEACE ✌️ OF ADVANCED TACTICAL FIGHTER (ATF) FOR PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY 🏨 IN AMERICA🇺🇸 PEOPLE 😎🇺🇸
Slainte, love the content. I like the fact, the United States has so many heroes & one could watch & listen to their stories all day long & marvel at their skills. Slainte, from Ireland (Eire) we have heroes too for anyone who takes any offence to my views as does all countries.
I always laugh when they say the stealth as a radar signature of a sea gull or golf ball. If that is so I would be concerned with either flying at me at mach one or higher. If I see a golf ball fling towards me at 1.5 mach I think I'd go to hole nineteen.
What a machine, in 1969 I was 9 and my uncle Jack who piloted the F4 phantom in Vietnam was home on leave for Christmas, I was in awe, this F22 is an incredible design, thank God for all who serve this great country. 🙏🇺🇸
People questions the F22 and America air force.. The raptor was out in the early 2000s and was the first stealth fighter of its kind. And now in 2023 still a top dog considering China and Russia has just developed new modern aircraft.. That shows how amazing still is the raptor
When it comes to design and stealth the Chinese and Russian Stealth planes are still well short of the Raptor with regards to stealth. The Su-57 is not actually that stealthy.
Those of we who cannot fly OR WORK ON these magnificent aircraft can only imagine the incredible skill required to do what these brave women and men do to keep America SAFE! GOD BLESS them all!
I planned on watching about 20 minutes of this and then to bed, It's now 03:11. I'm so happy to have seen this fine presentation. Thank you for a brilliant chapter! Very well done! 👍
The B1B Lancer is just an amazing aircraft. One of my favorite. A deadly bomber with the sexy lines and deadly looks of the F16. I'm thankful its never had to fly the missions it was built for! 🤓
The greatest air superiority fighter in the world. It won its competition for a reason, and despite its increasing age remains the top platform, the top dog. So glad to live in a time when I can see the legendary F-22 Raptor
the yf 23 looks like someone on drugs did it, idiotic wide wings, just plain ugly the f22 raptor is so wickedly beautiful when ever 1 flew over my house from Tyndall air force base I would drop everything and run out of my house to hear the roaring thunder of this wickid beautiful beast, and that was only slow cruising, I imagine at their top speed I would not be able to see it and only hear it when it was 10 miles away
I was out in Utah or Arizona and 4 of them flew over. They also hit the sound barrier. It was one of the most shocking things I have witnessed. The noise and speed is one thing I’ll never forget. They flew by twice.
It has already been surpassed by whatever Lockheed Martin announced they have successfully tested. We only have to wait and see what miracle they are cooking behind the scenes
Some of the people running the outfit that makes decisions ain't the brightest Minds, they both belong in the fleet because both planes are magnificent creation of engineering and they both have their pros and cons.
I have watched many comparisons of the YF22 and the YF23. The vast majority of what I have seen stated that the YF23 was the superior aircraft. Nearly equal to the YF22 in maneuverability without the thrust vectoring, faster, and had a much longer range. The problem seemed to be with the USAF being unsure if Northrup/McDonnell Douglas could deliver the fighter since they already had the contract for producing the B2 Spirit Bomber. While the F22 is the best fighter going today, it seems that we took the runner-up in this fighter competition. It's too bad we couldn't have had both.
That C-5 Galaxy at the end , DAMN!!!!!! that big girl sounds soooooooo good!!!!!! Also the Raptor sounded like a friggin old school NASA Apollo launch during some of it's maneuvering, so bad ass! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Great video, now we understand why the YF23 had those huge weird tails inclined at an 45 degree angle , the tandem wing and the height of its tails were designed for high maneuverability at high speed instead of the thrust vectoring we see on the Raptor which has high maneuverability at low speed . Apart from that both aircrafts are State of the Art.
The yf-23 had a more advanced air inlet and could hold much more than air to air missiles, the f-22 was stuck with air to air only due to its size they couldnt fit anything bigger. The yf-23 was also reaching mach 2.0 in test phase while the f-22 topped at mach 1.6. 38-40 thousand pounds of thrust is what i always heard on the yf-23 put out, while the f-22 has 35 thousand pounds of thrust with the same engine.. If im not mistaken, the f-22 only beat the yf-23 in one category out of around 10, and it was low speed manueverability. The high speed manueverability wasnt any better for the f-22, and the yf-23 could operate at speeds the f-22 couldnt even reach. It would of made a great interceptor and is the only true 6th gen airframe to this day, its a fully unique diamond wing design. We foolishly left it out in a desert after it lost the competition, thats why the su-57 and chinese jets match it almost identically from the sides and front. Both planes over acheived, so they went with the lesser hassle, from what i know Northrup was getting crap from the government about the b-2 spirit price and production, but this i think would of took a different route, this thing had potential.
@@danielmendricks7205 yeah well both planes over exceeded so, to them they went with the safer bet but it wasnt a wise choice looking back imo. They were also upset with northrop over the b2 project and how the expenses with that got ran up, they may have thought the same would happen here.
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. 😂😂😂😂 hence didn’t get built 😂
I was living in Mojave at the time. Our biological father worked at Edwards Air Force Base. The ATF program is 1 of the many secret government programs he was part of. I remember wearing our ATF fly off shirt's in high school. I still wished the 23 would have won.
With all due respect to the gentlemen who made presentations on this video, the F-22 has been discontinued and F-35 was developed and will be the primary fighter-bomber for the US and its allies. Engineering is a complex mixture of features that must be balanced to create something that works in the real world. The modern fighter-bomber has many features that must come together to make an effective combat-worthy weapon. One overwhelming feature is to make something in sufficient numbers to overpower your adversary. As many generals have warned their countrymen, in the modern era we get carried away with technology because it is sexy. What we need to focus on is combat-worthiness. What will actually happen in an all out war is determined by the shear number of fighters with well-trained pilots that a nation can get up in the air. What we learned in Vietnam is that air superiority alone will not win the war. As general Shinseki stated that we needed more boots on the ground. In the Vietnam War the US needed more general infantry on the ground to take control of an area. Air superiority alone cannot win the war.
The F16 vs F4 picture was of both planes flying as tight a turn as possible without loosing vertical lift. So it was a fair comparison showcasing the F16's greater maneuverability. There is a video of the crazy avionics of the F16 that talks about the F4 and F16 flight models.
YF-23 = Hold my beer F-22= NO YOU GOT MOTHBALLED, LOCKHEAD PAID THE AIR FORCE SO I COULD HAVE ALL YOUR TECH WHERE THE F%#@! DID YOU COME FROM, I'M IN A FREAKING NIGHTMARE I MUST BE SOMEBODY WAKE ME UP PPPPPPPLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSSSEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Actually the YF23 met the requirements better than the YF22 did. It's faster and more stealthy. Thrust vectoring nozzles were not part of the requirements but could have been designed into the aircraft post build. Although the YF22 is an outstanding fighter, i believe the YF23 got a raw deal. The DoD did the same thing with the Glock handgun, as they didn't even complete testing and went with the Sig Sauer platform even though it didn't perform as reliable as the Glock. Both projects are clear evidence that government doesn't even follow their own guidelines but expects everyone to obey them regardless.
The government is consistent with that bullshit with having a two tiered justice system. There is no accountability either. It's disgusting. We should dump 342 chests of tea into a harbor.
Were you involved in the testing and selection process? Or are you just here to bitch about the government? It's really easy to bitch about the government. It's pretty much all ya hear nowadays. Nothing out there is gonna take a raptor, nothing.
The Raptor test pilots were able to pull maneuvers during the exhibitions that the YF23 couldn’t…that was the biggest selling point for DoD. When your team’s project can do more than the competition’s can, it’s always gonna look better.
Video description said this would cover the F-22 and we hear more about the YF-23 than anything else... Plus some of the video played doesn't match the audio references being presented.
@@III1IlIIlIllIl turning, it turns out, isn’t all that important. Super maneuverability has been proven in exercises to be pretty useless. You may get one fox 2 shot or one gun shot but then you are stuck with no energy. It’s an air show trick is all.
@@TheBrokenFarmer- It isn't important, until you need it. I've heard the same argument made back in the 60s when aircraft designers and experts say that guns are obsolete. Fighters are never going to dogfight again. They days of air combat maneuvering are over. All you need are missiles with long range. Then Vietnam happened. On paper, maybe super maneuverability will never be used in combat. Then again, something unexpected always seems to come up. Let's say for instance, that a near peer enemy has a fighter than is stealth, can super cruise, and has visual range weapons like off boresight missiles and a gun. He got vectored into you and neither of you could get a radar lock because of good stealth, electronic jamming, terrain or whatever. You enter the merge. Your flares defeat each other's Fox 2s. He can super maneuver and you can't. Now what? The folks who were pushing atomic bombs and ICBMs pretty much said the same thing. You don't need bombers, aircraft carriers, and tanks any more. The days of conventional warfare is over. Why build a large army or navy when they can be wiped out with a nuclear bomb? It's much better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
@@derekbaker777 it’s just not part of doctrine anymore. The US doesn’t take aircraft to the merge. We also don’t operate them that. Super maneuvering might get you one quick opportunity then you’re dead with no energy while the other guy makes a big 2 circle loop and kills you. These planes cost how many millions? We don’t fight fair. We also don’t really fight during the day. You’d never see each other.
@@derekbaker777 - "Speed and Maneuverability" are antonyms. You cannot have both. Listen to the first 9 seconds of the video again. This plane is never supposed to be within 50 miles of an enemy. Likely closer to 100.
Just the technology that was developed to create those rounded shapes out of advanced composite materials is just astounding. Then you begin talking about oyd advanced airframe, engines, avionics, & new armaments and it truly makes me proud that Americansaccomplishedthis feat& and also thankful we wont have to go up against it. And no, the Chinese J20 is not comparable. Hopefully we never have to find out though.
@ger808 Would you mind telling me how many of those airframes are operational? How many sorties per day is Russia capable of fielding? Just curious, yeah there’s google, but you seem eager. So I don’t think you would mind enlightening me. 🤓
According to all its pilots, it's the most manoeuvrable fighter jet ever designed, and that's the least impressive thing about it. It doesn't have opponents, it has victims.
The Horton Ho-229 was not originally designed to be stealthy, just a correction. Tests were performed on a full scale model and show that it wasn't stealthy, the Hortons probably said that later on for clout.
Should have built both. I see somebody else made that point in comment's below. Outstanding video , gold & RUclips at its best with the content maker, Scopes channel. As a simmer, I wish someone put the Y-23 into it. Slainte belated Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 💖 love this channel
F-22 is an incredible fighter, that the US doesn’t really need. While superior to the F-35, the F 35 will prove to be more all round aircraft. Especially if it replaces the warthog A-10. Must say, it’s a beautiful aircraft.
The reason the YF 23 was not selected was because it was more expensive better electronics and was truly stealth and flew With fewer weapons.When the YF 23 took off and was out of sight it was truly stealth could not be detected by most sensitive tech advanced Radar Fy23 IMO will be new 6th generation super sonic fighter/bomber
SSShhhh the F-22 fans can't handle the truth about how Lockhead won both the ATF and JTSF program competitions and contracts. Fub fact the only thing a F-22 has shot down is a Chinese balloon in its 20+ years of service and numerous YF-23 tech swap out's for the junk Lockhead had installed in them and significant cost over runs that cause the AF to cancel the contract
I served with the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center's Detachment 6 as a Suitability Logistics Analyst on the Raptor Acquisition Program. We analyzed (tested) the jet and its Logistics Infrastructure, identified deficiencies, and AFOTEC reported to the Pentagon. #BestJobEver.!
America has, since being poked in the eye at Pearl Harbor, been fortunate to be able to afford to buy most of the best development minds on the planet.
@@jimkluska253 One of the YF-23 prototypes was a Navy carrier variant with reinforced landing gear and a retractable tailhook, The navy was real interested in it very early on if you watch the documentary about it at it's roll out and first flight the Navy was on hand with AF brass to watch it. its not a coincidence Lockhead won the AFT contract nor the JSF contract and both times delivered the SECOND BEST PERFORMING DESIGN, the F-22 and the F-35, they just knew who's palms to grease in the capitol and DOD.
Makes you wonder what we have in the works in 2023. If the F-22 is still supposedly the best even though it was designed so long ago and has been out of manufacturing for over a decade . What kind of spaceships are in development or even ready for use nowadays that we don't know about...
The YF-23 actually beat the YF-22 in the majority of flight maneuvers and tests. Over all Lockheed Martin had a better marketing campaign and used, whining, and dining better than did Northrop. Not to mention they had a better track record at that time of showing flight status and maintenance on the units that they built.
Am I the only person who sees the similarities between the YF-23 and the SU-57? And, while we're at it, the similarities of Russia's newest fighter, the SU-75 and the X-32? Who is selling US military tech to the Russians?
I remember when Mohamed Reza Pahlevi the leader of Iran (anti communist) was also an ally of the US .The US sold 30 F-14 Grumman Tomcat to Iran ( the only country that has received F-14 in history) to face the soviet fighters. Well, bad news, later in a coup d´etat led by Ayatollah Khomeini the monarch was overthrown and Iran allied itself with the Soviet Union..The F-14 Tomcats ( the most advanced of their time) were inspected by the Russians and in a very short time the Russians began to manufacture advanced aircrafts that they had never had before until today...And all thanks to the THEFT OF TECHNOLOGY from the F-14 Tomcat
i wonder if it would be possible to burn up or remove the atmosphere in front of the aircraft just as a diver breaks up the water to get a clean dive is it possible to create a vacum infront of the leading edges of the plane
...and then the navy looked over the fence and saw the f-22. That's when they said: "damn, I should break me off a piece of that." YF-23 team: "Well, we just so happen to... Navy: "Nah, not interested. I want one like that little British number, the harrier. Yep, single engine, slow as piss, can't beat an f-16 in a dog fight but with today's missiles, ACM is a thing of the past. That's the kinda fleet protector we're looking for." YF-23 team: "Did anyone else suddenly get hit with deja Vu? Hey, Navy! You might want to have a good long conversation with the Air Force before you ink any contracts for a fighter that can't dogfight."
Tom crashed because he was trying to fly the 22 like any other plane. You can't do that, the avionics on the 22 fly the plane. The oscillation was caused due to pilot input and computer corrections.
Built again like firsth generation or 2 radar system evade to other aircrafts as french one. Built my evade system correctly. 5th generation would show the sign.
I want to say this as distinctly and clearly as one can say: The Hortoon 229 was not built in regards to itS RADAR Reflectivity in any way, shape or form. It was built out of plywood and cardboard laminate because that was pretty much all that available by March 1945 when the aircraft was being quietly test flown. Carbon Fibers were not invented until 1964 SO IT COULD NOIT HAVE BEEN BUILT OUT OF carbon fibers to absorb RADAR and electromagnetic energy. It was actually built from Plywood Laminate cardboard because that was pretty much the only building material that was flight rated available to Horton this late in the war. As far as its shape? Why build it this Way? For Speed. Like a tear drop or an arrow with again, no consideration to Radar Reflectivity. It was supposed to fly at 1000KMH with a 1000KM RANGE with 1000KG of Bombs. Which would have been impossible using the Juno 004 Turbo Jets it was designed to use. Too bad we will never know because the first prototype crashed killing its test pilot weeks before the German Surrender on May 8, 1945. The third prototype was captured by the US Army under Operation: PAPERCLIP and returned back to USA. No record of testing on its airframe or building a copy to flight status existed. It wasn’t until 2008 when Northrop-Grumman Engineers borrowed the prototype from its long term storage locker at the Smithsonian in Washington. Over a series of several months the aircraft was restored with contemporary materials available at the time of its construction. The aircraft was then transported to Taejon, California and placed on a USAF RADAR Test stand The Prototype Model did poorly. It was not stealthy to WW2 or any other Era’s RADAR. MIXING COAL DUST AND GLUE AS ONE OF THGE hORTON bROS. REVEALED IN THE 1980S TO MAKE THE 229 STEALTHY, A TERM WHICH WAS NOT INVENTED UNTIL THE 1970S PROVED DUBIOUS. IT WAS NOT STEALTHY!!!!! NOR WOULD IT HAVE BEEN CONTROLABLE IN ITS ERA”S AVAILIBLE FLIGHT CONTROLS AND AVIONICS!!!
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AAHH😎...!!, YEAH.......!!,YO....................!!, ℹ️ THIS 5th 🧬GENERATION 🧬 FIGHTER F/A-22 RAPTORS ARE AN AMAZINGLY AWESOME👏 PEACE ✌️ OF ADVANCED TACTICAL FIGHTER (ATF) FOR PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY 🏨 IN AMERICA🇺🇸 PEOPLE 😎🇺🇸
Slainte, love the content. I like the fact, the United States has so many heroes & one could watch & listen to their stories all day long & marvel at their skills. Slainte, from Ireland (Eire) we have heroes too for anyone who takes any offence to my views as does all countries.
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I always laugh when they say the stealth as a radar signature of a sea gull or golf ball. If that is so I would be concerned with either flying at me at mach one or higher. If I see a golf ball fling towards me at 1.5 mach I think I'd go to hole nineteen.
IMO the F 22 is the most beautiful fighter ever built
Love the gold canopy
Yeah, F-14, F15 look good too, but F-22 is a beauty.
A-10C 😜
@@knowahnosenothing4862🫡 I think it's understood there's the A10, then there's everything else.
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What a machine, in 1969 I was 9 and my uncle Jack who piloted the F4 phantom in Vietnam was home on leave for Christmas, I was in awe, this F22 is an incredible design, thank God for all who serve this great country. 🙏🇺🇸
Your uncle jack must've been the man bro. Hope he's doing good these days
@@kevinmyers440Uncle Jack has passed away. RIP Uncle Jack
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People questions the F22 and America air force.. The raptor was out in the early 2000s and was the first stealth fighter of its kind. And now in 2023 still a top dog considering China and Russia has just developed new modern aircraft.. That shows how amazing still is the raptor
and we can see their stealth craft. They cant see ours
When it comes to design and stealth the Chinese and Russian Stealth planes are still well short of the Raptor with regards to stealth. The Su-57 is not actually that stealthy.
Those of we who cannot fly OR WORK ON these magnificent aircraft can only imagine the incredible skill required to do what these brave women and men do to keep America SAFE! GOD BLESS them all!
Rooted for him since the beginning, and he was just crowned the winner. BEYOND PROUD.
I planned on watching about 20 minutes of this and then to bed, It's now 03:11. I'm so happy to have seen this fine presentation. Thank you for a brilliant chapter! Very well done! 👍
Wow, thank you! Buster
oh you too im not that late but great video's he has.
The B1B Lancer is just an amazing aircraft. One of my favorite. A deadly bomber with the sexy lines and deadly looks of the F16. I'm thankful its never had to fly the missions it was built for! 🤓
This channel is a real treasure for us military aviation enthusiasts. Kudos. Love all the content!
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just found out my granpa was in the force and got to see the world now im obsessed with flying
the dude giving the 23 speech is a great speaker, id love to talk to that dude about the amazing innovations he’s been a part of in aviation
The greatest air superiority fighter in the world. It won its competition for a reason, and despite its increasing age remains the top platform, the top dog. So glad to live in a time when I can see the legendary F-22 Raptor
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the yf 23 looks like someone on drugs did it, idiotic wide wings, just plain ugly the f22 raptor is so wickedly beautiful when ever 1 flew over my house from Tyndall air force base I would drop everything and run out of my house to hear the roaring thunder of this wickid beautiful beast, and that was only slow cruising, I imagine at their top speed I would not be able to see it and only hear it when it was 10 miles away
It's an awesome aircraft.. It's just a shame that it's first official confirmed kill is the Chinese Spy Balloon of 2023..
I was out in Utah or Arizona and 4 of them flew over. They also hit the sound barrier. It was one of the most shocking things I have witnessed. The noise and speed is one thing I’ll never forget. They flew by twice.
It has already been surpassed by whatever Lockheed Martin announced they have successfully tested. We only have to wait and see what miracle they are cooking behind the scenes
Gotta love talking about the F-15 while showing carrier cat shots and traps of the F-14!!
Way to go!
He made up for it tho. : D
Some of the people running the outfit that makes decisions ain't the brightest Minds, they both belong in the fleet because both planes are magnificent creation of engineering and they both have their pros and cons.
Glad you included all of the extra YF-23 info. Info on this amazing plane isn't easy to find. I enjoyed it-thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just ask the Communist Chinese for it . They got all the info you would need .
22:51 when they are describing radar and stealth and how they work together. Those guys must be mad scientist.
I have watched many comparisons of the YF22 and the YF23. The vast majority of what I have seen stated that the YF23 was the superior aircraft. Nearly equal to the YF22 in maneuverability without the thrust vectoring, faster, and had a much longer range. The problem seemed to be with the USAF being unsure if Northrup/McDonnell Douglas could deliver the fighter since they already had the contract for producing the B2 Spirit Bomber. While the F22 is the best fighter going today, it seems that we took the runner-up in this fighter competition. It's too bad we couldn't have had both.
Greetings from Sweden!
Been listening to your channel for 12 hrs straight now.
Really awesome job you did here!🎉
The Raptor doing a 360-deg flip so effortlessly and while under the pilot's full control is simply amazing. .
That C-5 Galaxy at the end , DAMN!!!!!! that big girl sounds soooooooo good!!!!!!
Also the Raptor sounded like a friggin old school NASA Apollo launch during some of it's maneuvering, so bad ass!
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I was worked at Tyndall AFB back in 2006 . Watch the F-22 come and go all day long . Just AMAZING!!
F-22 & A-10 are my fav.
Great video, now we understand why the YF23 had those huge weird tails inclined at an 45 degree angle , the tandem wing and the height of its tails were designed for high maneuverability at high speed instead of the thrust vectoring we see on the Raptor which has high maneuverability at low speed . Apart from that both aircrafts are State of the Art.
Best video ever. Love the F-22 Raptor and the air show at the end was fabulous. 🤘👏❤️❤️❤️🤗❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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The yf-23 had a more advanced air inlet and could hold much more than air to air missiles, the f-22 was stuck with air to air only due to its size they couldnt fit anything bigger. The yf-23 was also reaching mach 2.0 in test phase while the f-22 topped at mach 1.6. 38-40 thousand pounds of thrust is what i always heard on the yf-23 put out, while the f-22 has 35 thousand pounds of thrust with the same engine.. If im not mistaken, the f-22 only beat the yf-23 in one category out of around 10, and it was low speed manueverability. The high speed manueverability wasnt any better for the f-22, and the yf-23 could operate at speeds the f-22 couldnt even reach. It would of made a great interceptor and is the only true 6th gen airframe to this day, its a fully unique diamond wing design. We foolishly left it out in a desert after it lost the competition, thats why the su-57 and chinese jets match it almost identically from the sides and front. Both planes over acheived, so they went with the lesser hassle, from what i know Northrup was getting crap from the government about the b-2 spirit price and production, but this i think would of took a different route, this thing had potential.
so you think the Air Force chose a 2nd rate frighter?
@@danielmendricks7205 yeah well both planes over exceeded so, to them they went with the safer bet but it wasnt a wise choice looking back imo. They were also upset with northrop over the b2 project and how the expenses with that got ran up, they may have thought the same would happen here.
You’re wrong
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. 😂😂😂😂 hence didn’t get built 😂
I was living in Mojave at the time. Our biological father worked at Edwards Air Force Base. The ATF program is 1 of the many secret government programs he was part of.
I remember wearing our ATF fly off shirt's in high school.
I still wished the 23 would have won.
Thank you. Very well made documentary. I got tired of hearing the same dialog on these machines read in different synthesized voices.
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The F-22 Raptor never disappoints me
My old man was a a first lieutenant in the late 50's early 60's. SAC. Very good talk and I have enjoyed it very much. Cool sir.
With all due respect to the gentlemen who made presentations on this video, the F-22 has been discontinued and F-35 was developed and will be the primary fighter-bomber for the US and its allies. Engineering is a complex mixture of features that must be balanced to create something that works in the real world. The modern fighter-bomber has many features that must come together to make an effective combat-worthy weapon. One overwhelming feature is to make something in sufficient numbers to overpower your adversary. As many generals have warned their countrymen, in the modern era we get carried away with technology because it is sexy. What we need to focus on is combat-worthiness. What will actually happen in an all out war is determined by the shear number of fighters with well-trained pilots that a nation can get up in the air. What we learned in Vietnam is that air superiority alone will not win the war. As general Shinseki stated that we needed more boots on the ground. In the Vietnam War the US needed more general infantry on the ground to take control of an area. Air superiority alone cannot win the war.
The F-35 is unequivocally a POS, except for the #BModel. The program is in serious trouble logistically. (www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105341)
I worked at a repair shop on S Mcdil I saw a B2 fly over that was cool
The F16 vs F4 picture was of both planes flying as tight a turn as possible without loosing vertical lift. So it was a fair comparison showcasing the F16's greater maneuverability. There is a video of the crazy avionics of the F16 that talks about the F4 and F16 flight models.
Such is really no contest.
if they are showing this. there must be even greater more advanced craft being kept secret?
Definitely
No that's everything I checked
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The F-35B is pretty badass
A lot of the information is still classified.
Air Dominance at its Finest, a Raptor. 🥇🥇🥇🥇
I worked on the F16 for 22 years so that’s my plane but the 22 is awesome.
Came to the world unmatched and will retire still unmatched.
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YF-23 = Hold my beer
F-22= NO YOU GOT MOTHBALLED, LOCKHEAD PAID THE AIR FORCE SO I COULD HAVE ALL YOUR TECH WHERE THE F%#@! DID YOU COME FROM, I'M IN A FREAKING NIGHTMARE I MUST BE SOMEBODY WAKE ME UP PPPPPPPLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSSSEEEEEEE!!!!!!
I liked the footage in the beginning of the F-15 mockup in the Grumman Plant on Long Island, followed by the F-15's taking off from the carrier! Lol
Actually the YF23 met the requirements better than the YF22 did. It's faster and more stealthy. Thrust vectoring nozzles were not part of the requirements but could have been designed into the aircraft post build. Although the YF22 is an outstanding fighter, i believe the YF23 got a raw deal. The DoD did the same thing with the Glock handgun, as they didn't even complete testing and went with the Sig Sauer platform even though it didn't perform as reliable as the Glock. Both projects are clear evidence that government doesn't even follow their own guidelines but expects everyone to obey them regardless.
The government is consistent with that bullshit with having a two tiered justice system. There is no accountability either. It's disgusting. We should dump 342 chests of tea into a harbor.
Yes on all counts..
But it as sexy as the raptor, and that's the end of it lol
Were you involved in the testing and selection process? Or are you just here to bitch about the government? It's really easy to bitch about the government. It's pretty much all ya hear nowadays. Nothing out there is gonna take a raptor, nothing.
It means politic already around the globe dude..and yes, raptor is sexy 😅😅😅
The Raptor test pilots were able to pull maneuvers during the exhibitions that the YF23 couldn’t…that was the biggest selling point for DoD. When your team’s project can do more than the competition’s can, it’s always gonna look better.
Video description said this would cover the F-22 and we hear more about the YF-23 than anything else... Plus some of the video played doesn't match the audio references being presented.
The yf-23 was a failed jet. Glad that it wasn't made. That jet couldn't turn like the f-22.
@@III1IlIIlIllIl turning, it turns out, isn’t all that important. Super maneuverability has been proven in exercises to be pretty useless. You may get one fox 2 shot or one gun shot but then you are stuck with no energy. It’s an air show trick is all.
@@TheBrokenFarmer- It isn't important, until you need it. I've heard the same argument made back in the 60s when aircraft designers and experts say that guns are obsolete. Fighters are never going to dogfight again. They days of air combat maneuvering are over. All you need are missiles with long range. Then Vietnam happened.
On paper, maybe super maneuverability will never be used in combat. Then again, something unexpected always seems to come up. Let's say for instance, that a near peer enemy has a fighter than is stealth, can super cruise, and has visual range weapons like off boresight missiles and a gun. He got vectored into you and neither of you could get a radar lock because of good stealth, electronic jamming, terrain or whatever. You enter the merge. Your flares defeat each other's Fox 2s. He can super maneuver and you can't. Now what?
The folks who were pushing atomic bombs and ICBMs pretty much said the same thing. You don't need bombers, aircraft carriers, and tanks any more. The days of conventional warfare is over. Why build a large army or navy when they can be wiped out with a nuclear bomb?
It's much better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
@@derekbaker777 it’s just not part of doctrine anymore. The US doesn’t take aircraft to the merge. We also don’t operate them that. Super maneuvering might get you one quick opportunity then you’re dead with no energy while the other guy makes a big 2 circle loop and kills you.
These planes cost how many millions? We don’t fight fair. We also don’t really fight during the day. You’d never see each other.
@@derekbaker777 - "Speed and Maneuverability" are antonyms. You cannot have both. Listen to the first 9 seconds of the video again. This plane is never supposed to be within 50 miles of an enemy. Likely closer to 100.
Just the technology that was developed to create those rounded shapes out of advanced composite materials is just astounding. Then you begin talking about oyd advanced airframe, engines, avionics, & new armaments and it truly makes me proud that Americansaccomplishedthis feat& and also thankful we wont have to go up against it. And no, the Chinese J20 is not comparable. Hopefully we never have to find out though.
su 57 will wipe it off the map
@@ger808 57 has no chance unless attacking civilians, sorry.
@ger808 Would you mind telling me how many of those airframes are operational? How many sorties per day is Russia capable of fielding? Just curious, yeah there’s google, but you seem eager. So I don’t think you would mind enlightening me. 🤓
Guess who got to watch one of these bad boys shoot down a Chinese spy balloon. One of the top three most patriotic moments of my life.
Oh sweet ! Nice. That’s a rare experience. Wish I could’ve seen that. I love aviation and our military
Making a new fighter/bomber every 7 to 10 years makes sense rather than every 30 years to reduce risks of un-developed/un-tested technologies
Thanks so much for the great content, not much information on this superior developed, designed and operated U.S superior bird.
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According to all its pilots, it's the most manoeuvrable fighter jet ever designed, and that's the least impressive thing about it. It doesn't have opponents, it has victims.
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If the YF23 wasnt so damn ugly it might have seen production. They tried their best...bless their hearts.
The Horton Ho-229 was not originally designed to be stealthy, just a correction. Tests were performed on a full scale model and show that it wasn't stealthy, the Hortons probably said that later on for clout.
Key part of that that keeps getting missed "Stealthy FOR RADARS AT THAT TIME"
amazing F22 video
I love watching this aircraft no matter where demonstration is held.
Extraordinary fetes of engineering... But A10-Warthog is STILL my favorite
Should have built both. I see somebody else made that point in comment's below. Outstanding video , gold & RUclips at its best with the content maker, Scopes channel. As a simmer, I wish someone put the Y-23 into it. Slainte belated Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 💖 love this channel
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Yah they should builded both.
only 2 words needed ( wickidly beautiful)
Who ever her parents are must have be great people that’s what it’s all about shearing your knowledge with your kids she’s incredible😊
Well said sir an we appreciate your service. Wow
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F-22 is an incredible fighter, that the US doesn’t really need. While superior to the F-35, the F 35 will prove to be more all round aircraft. Especially if it replaces the warthog A-10. Must say, it’s a beautiful aircraft.
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What I find amazing is that both of these aircraft have a smaller radar cross section than a single one of the missiles they carry.
The reason the YF 23 was not selected was because it was more expensive better electronics and was truly stealth and flew
With fewer weapons.When the YF 23 took off and was out of sight it was truly stealth could not be detected by most sensitive tech advanced
Radar Fy23 IMO will be new 6th generation super sonic fighter/bomber
10:24 why is the pilot getting his bottom hosed down like this? Did he do a number 2 in his flight-suit?
What a mezmerising video!! I was spellboand all the way through and hung on every word.
The F-22 was selected because of backdoor pocket filling, the YF-23 was far superior.
SSShhhh the F-22 fans can't handle the truth about how Lockhead won both the ATF and JTSF program competitions and contracts. Fub fact the only thing a F-22 has shot down is a Chinese balloon in its 20+ years of service and numerous YF-23 tech swap out's for the junk Lockhead had installed in them and significant cost over runs that cause the AF to cancel the contract
I served with the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center's Detachment 6 as a Suitability Logistics Analyst on the Raptor Acquisition Program. We analyzed (tested) the jet and its Logistics Infrastructure, identified deficiencies, and AFOTEC reported to the Pentagon. #BestJobEver.!
Thank you for your service
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Mad to think it cost so much money and was never used or needed on a large scale
The B-1,, INCREDIBLE!!
THE BEST OF THE VERY BEST......AND BETTER THAN ANYTHING
That really is a beautiful plane.
Kind of shocking to think a jet developed 35 years ago is still considered cutting edge.
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America has, since being poked in the eye at Pearl Harbor, been fortunate to be able to afford to buy most of the best development minds on the planet.
It takes a long time to design and produce a machine that is as reliable as is required for the US MILITARY.
What's crazy is the f15, and now f15ex, is still a dominant fighter. And the us is currently testing 6th gen.
That's ok , just means DOD lost out on having 2 types of fighters , the YF 23 got sold to Japan
Lies. That thing is under tighter wraps than the 22
❤ love f22 Raptor.
The YF 23 was a Absolutely Beautiful Plane. What could of been if it was chosen 🤔
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Always thought they should have have made both. A naval of 23 would have solved the range and speed intercept issues
Duh black man with his Damascus black steel pos sword wood have effed it all to pieces!
@Daniel...100 % agree,
@@jimkluska253 One of the YF-23 prototypes was a Navy carrier variant with reinforced landing gear and a retractable tailhook, The navy was real interested in it very early on if you watch the documentary about it at it's roll out and first flight the Navy was on hand with AF brass to watch it. its not a coincidence Lockhead won the AFT contract nor the JSF contract and both times delivered the SECOND BEST PERFORMING DESIGN, the F-22 and the F-35, they just knew who's palms to grease in the capitol and DOD.
Both test pilots even said the yf23 was faster and more maneuverable at super cruise speeds not to mention the avionics from 23 was used in the 22
This magnificent plane took down that damn balloon. One shot. Thank you for serving, Mr. Pilot.
Too bad thats the only thing its shot down after 20+ years of service lol what a waste of money but we all know where it really went don't we LMFAO.
great plain awesome plain but what runs it is the best awesome pilot
Makes you wonder what we have in the works in 2023. If the F-22 is still supposedly the best even though it was designed so long ago and has been out of manufacturing for over a decade . What kind of spaceships are in development or even ready for use nowadays that we don't know about...
I have personally seen an F22 stand on it's tail in flight ,due to thrust vectoring!
Yf23 is a missed opportunity for the Air Force I wish they would have built more. I love tech and look of the Yf23
Absolutely!
Love it how when he talks about the F15, the video is showing the F14 lol not everytime but about 20% of the time. Ha
Somebody told me that the F 22As have the updated stealth features of the B 21 Raider....so they say...
I doubt that.
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Just a small detail: in the beginning, when talking about F-15s, most of the footage shown is of F-14s
The YF-23 actually beat the YF-22 in the majority of flight maneuvers and tests. Over all Lockheed Martin had a better marketing campaign and used, whining, and dining better than did Northrop. Not to mention they had a better track record at that time of showing flight status and maintenance on the units that they built.
Look at the first one and the changes made to it by time it was finally released
Great video !! Wow
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The Pilot Once Flew That Exact Plane. Last 5 Years It Flew Over The Hotel As An Air Show On His Tribute.
Am I the only person who sees the similarities between the YF-23 and the SU-57? And, while we're at it, the similarities of Russia's newest fighter, the SU-75 and the X-32? Who is selling US military tech to the Russians?
No one is. Stealth comes with a lot of restrictions and paradigms. So they all sorta look alike.
I remember when Mohamed Reza Pahlevi the leader of Iran (anti communist) was also an ally of the US .The US sold 30 F-14 Grumman Tomcat to Iran ( the only country that has received F-14 in history) to face the soviet fighters. Well, bad news, later in a coup d´etat led by Ayatollah Khomeini the monarch was overthrown and Iran allied itself with the Soviet Union..The F-14 Tomcats ( the most advanced of their time) were inspected by the Russians and in a very short time the Russians began to manufacture advanced aircrafts that they had never had before until today...And all thanks to the THEFT OF TECHNOLOGY from the F-14 Tomcat
More likely it’s being stolen by a spy
i wonder if it would be possible to burn up or remove the atmosphere in front of the aircraft just as a diver breaks up the water to get a clean dive is it possible to create a vacum infront of the leading edges of the plane
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I don't know why they just use both models they are better than what everyone else had out there
Extra costs probably. Different training programs alone is very expensive.
Yeah why not a mixture of both
...and then the navy looked over the fence and saw the f-22. That's when they said: "damn, I should break me off a piece of that."
YF-23 team: "Well, we just so happen to...
Navy: "Nah, not interested. I want one like that little British number, the harrier. Yep, single engine, slow as piss, can't beat an f-16 in a dog fight but with today's missiles, ACM is a thing of the past. That's the kinda fleet protector we're looking for."
YF-23 team: "Did anyone else suddenly get hit with deja Vu? Hey, Navy! You might want to have a good long conversation with the Air Force before you ink any contracts for a fighter that can't dogfight."
That "little British number" went 23-0 against French and US technology during the Falklands conflict of 1982.
@@markwhitelaw6264 Sure it did...and how exactly did the Falklands conflict end up?
@@cliffcampbell8827 It left the Argies in a huff.
Are missles really faster than bullets??
Tom crashed because he was trying to fly the 22 like any other plane. You can't do that, the avionics on the 22 fly the plane.
The oscillation was caused due to pilot input and computer corrections.
Built again like firsth generation or 2 radar system evade to other aircrafts as french one. Built my evade system correctly. 5th generation would show the sign.
I want to say this as distinctly and clearly as one can say: The Hortoon 229 was not built in regards to itS RADAR Reflectivity in any way, shape or form. It was built out of plywood and cardboard laminate because that was pretty much all that available by March 1945 when the aircraft was being quietly test flown. Carbon Fibers were not invented until 1964 SO IT COULD NOIT HAVE BEEN BUILT OUT OF carbon fibers to absorb RADAR and electromagnetic energy.
It was actually built from Plywood Laminate cardboard because that was pretty much the only building material that was flight rated available to Horton this late in the war.
As far as its shape? Why build it this Way? For Speed. Like a tear drop or an arrow with again, no consideration to Radar Reflectivity. It was supposed to fly at 1000KMH with a 1000KM RANGE with 1000KG of Bombs. Which would have been impossible using the Juno 004 Turbo Jets it was designed to use.
Too bad we will never know because the first prototype crashed killing its test pilot weeks before the German Surrender on May 8, 1945.
The third prototype was captured by the US Army under Operation: PAPERCLIP and returned back to USA. No record of testing on its airframe or building a copy to flight status existed. It wasn’t until 2008 when Northrop-Grumman Engineers borrowed the prototype from its long term storage locker at the Smithsonian in Washington. Over a series of several months the aircraft was restored with contemporary materials available at the time of its construction. The aircraft was then transported to Taejon, California and placed on a USAF RADAR Test stand
The Prototype Model did poorly. It was not stealthy to WW2 or any other Era’s RADAR. MIXING COAL DUST AND GLUE AS ONE OF THGE hORTON bROS. REVEALED IN THE 1980S TO MAKE THE 229 STEALTHY, A TERM WHICH WAS NOT INVENTED UNTIL THE 1970S PROVED DUBIOUS.
IT WAS NOT STEALTHY!!!!! NOR WOULD IT HAVE BEEN CONTROLABLE IN ITS ERA”S AVAILIBLE FLIGHT CONTROLS AND AVIONICS!!!
Yes we are getting new fighters.. they will not be replacing f22s . They are currently working on new fighter
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Love it, but no actual war time kills
Might get a chance with the Russians and WW3, lol.
Maybe because every country that was an enemy of the U.S. knew they had no chance and refused to try to go up against it
Honestly that makes it feel more potent: people are too afraid to fight it. The best weapon is one you never have to use.
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