{"id":114511,"date":"2024-08-25T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T07:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-experimental-us-fighter-jets-never-made-production\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T07:03:12","slug":"5-experimental-us-fighter-jets-that-never-made-it-to-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=114511","title":{"rendered":"5 Experimental US Fighter Jets That Never Made it to Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The US Air Force and Navy have developed scores of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/experimental-planes\/\">experimental fighter jets<\/a> that never went into production. Sometimes, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/x-planes-usa-top-5-most-unbelievable-experimental-aircraft\/\">the aircraft were just intended as a proof of concept<\/a>. Other times, they lost to a competitor&#8217;s design. Still, other times, requirements had changed by the time they were developed (as in <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/north-american-xb-70-valkyrie-history\/\">the famous case of the North American XB-70 supersonic bomber<\/a>). Here are five US <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\">fighter jets<\/a> that flew but never entered serial production.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many advanced and eye-catching experimental US fighter jets have flown, only to be discarded and fall by the wayside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1880,628,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-experimental-planes","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114512,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114511\/revisions\/114512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}