{"id":316165,"date":"2025-11-14T01:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/fighter-jet-haunting-usaf\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:01:15","slug":"the-fighter-jet-haunting-the-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=316165","title":{"rendered":"The Fighter Jet Haunting The US Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2023701\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-yf-23-black-widow-never-entered-service\/\" >the Northrop\/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 &#8220;Black Window II&#8221; demonstrator built for the US Air Force&#8217;s Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF)<\/a><\/span> competition still haunt the Air Force? No, not really, but that doesn&#8217;t mean its tale is finished. There are many sound reasons why the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> selected the Lockheed Martin YF-22, which would go on to be the F-22 Raptor. While these decisions made sense at the time, many enthusiasts contend that the competition was stolen from Northrop and that the YF-23 should have been the basis for the air dominance fighter jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The YF-23 and YF-22 were closely matched, and the aircraft may return in another form for the US Navy&#8217;s F\/A-XX.<\/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":[396,7786,628,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-22-raptor","category-fighter-jets","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316165","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=316165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316166,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316165\/revisions\/316166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}