Agreed ... Military Affairs ... get a clue and stop recycling AI-generated and AI-edited footage as new material for clickbait. Don't be stupid. People might start flagging your videos as fake news.

As someone who wants to know where the JSDF stands I say this is just crap click bait probably paid for by Lockheed

yes japan is trying to produce a fighter in house. not using american tech

@@nomercyinc6783 Nope there you're wrong . Tech transfer was approved years ago they're also working with US manufacturers just like South Korea . It will be an indigenous aircraft but not wholly separated from the US .

The contribution to the joint Tempest project via Japan, Italy, and the UK will be second to none

@@skeletonkey6733 I'm sensing g a shill here

EXACTLY!! They offered more kickbacks, bribes, and payoffs.

Yup. Lockheed has the best kickback program. I see the Lockheed spare/replacement part prices have exceeded 833% over projected prices. Gotta get the money to pay those crooked politicians.

While both exceeded demands on the program, they had slightly different aptitudes. At highter speeds apparently the 23 was better as turning with those massive surfaces, and more stealthy too, also faster... but part of the point of a tactical fighter is dogfighting, and with the flanker and fulcrum both being fast and agile, excellent dog fighters, i think the airforce wanted the better dog fighter, since other requirements were at least met either way. Also, apparently, the 22 was a kind of total package of advanced technology, largely because of how Lockheed skunkworks did their innovation. The 22 reflected a lot og systemic advancements you couldn't see, from airframe construction to the 1 piece bubble canopy, etc. The 23 on the otherhand borrowed bots here and there from older aircraft to keep costs low and speed up the development of the new technologies on display, grom the canopy, seats, landing gear, etc... it was a kind of Frankenstein monster. To be sure, this means if they'd had more time, or reworked these parts for production, it would have been EVEN BETTER, but during the test this lead to little problems, like the canopy, and it made them look unprepared, unprofessional, coupled with a lack of polished marketing, it definitely lead to a bias based on the association many people have between little problems and a suspicion that bigger problems might arive as well if pushed. Its like a job interview, if your shirt isnt ironed or youre late, it foesnt mean you aren't smarter or more qualified, but it telegraph that you don't have it together and could be less stable, less commited, less competent, from unseen issues.

YEP! USAF wasted all that potential at that time.

It seems to me that some geniuses in the gov. sold some of these designs already, problem seems they were to the wrong team !

The navy should've accepted the NATF-23, would've been a huge upgrade to the navy

Which later inspired YF-21/VF-22 Sturmvogel II design from Macross Plus kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itqWo8dy15u9hIE.htmlsi=ZC2Y1jJLJ734LkXD

The YF-23 was made by the americans...

@@RngBooger yes I know. Two were built and flown. What I was saying was that instead of the technology being shelved and not used that it should have been used in a future production or what would have been the best was to produce both planes the F-22 and the F-23 and assign different roles to each or make one available for export.

Then Hollywood re-made it into the terrible live action movie called "Stealth"

don't forget that saudi arabia joined too, so more $$$

Not yet they haven't. Britain Japan and Italy. Japan hold over a Trillion dollars of US debt the most of any Country. Then it's China with about 820 billion dollars. Then Britain with nearly 800 billion dollars. They have the money.

It actually had everything to do with the Air Force constantly changing the scope of the project. USAF kept adding stuff it wanted. If you look at the development run between the YF23 and the YF22 the YF22 got a later start, so they had more of the scope of what the AF was looking for and didnt need to re-engineer the new scope into the project.

Basically the same foot print as the F22.

Nah. We good

There are numerous articles on the F22 project overrunning the budget causing production to end. The planned procurement number was 750 but that was cut to 187.

@@mindexpansionpuzzles I’ve heard the same. So much for being ‘cheaper’ to build huh? And cutting production numbers just causes the price per plane to skyrocket (just like the B2).

@@liquidsmokemustang1537 or just maybe half of the budget for the f22 is put to something else's development, a development so secret they needed the f22 as a decoy,then suddenly the f22 was stopped from production because of "budget issues" then videos like this later came out. hmm, interesting..., then a few years from now a new fighter jet similar to YF23 appears. just my speculations after seeing some infos from people claiming the YF23 development didnt stop but just went dark.

@@bernarddelossantos8083 Yeah. There are some comments to that effect on this video. My wife was the executive admin for the B2 program VP. Some of those engineers worked on the YF23 program. A very tight-lipped bunch but, what you suggest wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

All that, plus the post-cold-war era was defined by trying to collapse as few defense industry companies as possible, so there was a lot of "participation trophies" to keep the job market stable.

It is indeed less safe from a static stabilizing design, but there are a couple of advantages. An inherently unstable design can allow for faster control response. Whether that is the case with this aircraft I don't know, but it would not surprise me. The trade-off with small adjustments compared to a self-stabilized design is to a "flying wing's" benefit for fuel efficiency. While this aircraft isn't a pure flying wing, I think the correct term is "blended wing," it does have parallels. I'm not an expert; I'm relaying what I've seen on the subject myself. Here's a few videos I found interesting: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mqipqbN63q_Gink.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a59xa5CjsLjXXWQ.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6ugg8d6nLrdkmw.html

It almost doesn't have a "profile". Flat as a pancake. Probably a large factor in all-aspect stealth, at the expense of static stability.

F22 is far superior to the J20 as well.

How can you even say the USA shouldn't give money to Israel, are you anti Semitic ???

Too expense, the YF23 was vastly superior and should have been chosen.

Much of the black widow tech was cross decked into the B21 raider believe it or not.

​@@mitchjames9350yet it lost the competition. The internal systems would have been the same, the air force had specs for all internal systems, the contract was for an airframe to house the systems. The YF-22 & YF-23 had none of the systems, they were just to compare the airframes. The YF-22 won out because it was more manuverable.

​@@kdrapertruckerand yet in the end, the plane we needed didn't really need to be. The YF22 was chosen for a role that was never really there in this modern world. But hindsight is 20/20. The 23 sure would be helpful now though, with its increased range, internal space and being stealthier. Oh well. At least we can say we have the most badass stealthy fighter in the world lol

Or 9 the gen