The US navy’s missing fighter - The NATF-23 Sea Widow

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When: 3:00 pm Saturday, 9 July 2022 (GMT-7)

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If you think you’ve seen everything with the experimental YF-23, you’re wrong. There was one more other design…

It was to be the Navy’s 5th gen multirole aircraft.

Stealthy, maneuverable, and ready to hit that highway to the danger zone.

But it would face political opposition, technical challanges, and even lockheed trying to steal the future jet crown for a 2nd time!

Join me today on a story of the aircraft that Maverick should’ve flown in the latest Top gun - and why we never got it!

This is incredible the NATF-23.
Without spoiling the Top Gun Mavrick for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie yet, Maverick and his band of elite navy pilots fly the Super Hornets in the latest Top gun sequel.

Seriously just go watch it - it has the official found and explained stamp of approval.

And for those of you who watched it already you might be asking yourself how it could’ve been better… well I have the answer.

Air force’s ATF or Advanced tactical fighter program was launched during late 80s to create America’s first 5th gen aircraft and YF-22 and YF-23 were the main competitors with the YF-22 taking the edge and becoming what we know today as F-22 Raptor.

I have a full video on the YF-23 right here on the channel which you can watch… but there was a footnote to this story.

Northrop wasn’t going to accept the loss and went over to the Navy with a proposal that could’ve changed everything.
Navy was looking for a 5th gen aircraft for themselves to replace the aging F-14 tomcats, and what could be the spearhead for the future of the naval air force.

But requirements for the naval aircraft are different than the regular air force’s jets so YF-23 in its original form wasn’t going to do the job.

Instead, several very significant modifications were to be done to the fuselage, almost creating a completely new aircraft, barely resembling its predecessor.

By 1990 the N-ATF program was launched with you’d probably guess it, lockheed also was in on the race. They presented the F-22N, the naval version of the Raptor which would be the competition for the NATF-23.

The showdown of the future navy jet was on!

[FoundAndExplained]

How to Play with me on the upcoming Live Stream
- Do the tutorial so you know how to play.
and during the live stream, I will pick some random names from the list.
- I will be playing every weekend at different times, so everyone will get a go.

When: 3:00 pm Saturday, 9 July 2022 (GMT-7)

[SmilingCamperVan-ddcb]

Absolutely awesome! There is nothing like a fighter designed and built for the Navy. I'm not talking about adaptations of land based designs like the Hornet, Super Hornet, Rafale, F-35, and the Flanker. Both NATF designs were true naval fighters in the tradition of the F-8, F-4, and F-14. It is truly a shame there is so much corruption in the DOD. The USN might've fielded the NATF instead of being roped into the JSF program.

[skenzyme]

Been waiting for this beauty! Northrop had the better plane, but they had nobody but themselves to blame. The B-2 overruns ruined their reputation in that era.

[CrispyPratt]

Sea Widow had got to be one of the coolest names for a plane of all time

[ThisPartIsAndrew]

I was born in 87 and followed these aircraft since a young age. My Uncle was a USAF flight instructor and he would've enjoyed this. Amazingly good video! Production quality off the charts, great work!

[litesaberyi]

9:10 - this issue wasn't so easily "fixable" as one would suggest. The rotary carrier's jammability is inherent to the rotary design. In a dedicated bomber the stresses on the rotary's system would be marginal as bombers don't really pull heavy G loads. on a fighter the stresses can be significant. If there is a malfunction on the mechanics that can scrap the whole mission. There is a reason the system hasn't been put into actual combat use.

[Randomvideos-zipe]

somewhere in the multiverse there is a earth where the yf-23 won, with northrop and a competant mcdonell douglas worked together to bring the plane up to commissioning within 5 years, and till this date, still produces it without any overshooting of the budget

[stardog]

I have heard so many stories about why the YF-23 never got picked over the YF-22 for USAF service. Northrop lacked the capacity to build both the B-2 and the YF-23. Lockheed was in better financial shape. The YF-22 was determined to have better maneuverability., but the YF-23 didn't get a fair chance to demonstrate its maneuverability for the Air Force brass, because the test pilot wasn't given instructions to push the YF-23 to its limits. but the Lockheed pilot was. And finally, the Air Force leadership just plain hated the team at Northrop. I have no idea which story is true.

[lightspeedvictory]

Requesting videos on the following:
-switchblade aircraft designs such as the FA-37 Talon from the ‘05 movie “Stealth” or the X-02 Wyvern from the Ace Combat franchise
-Super Tomcat-21 and ASF-14
-the NATF program as a whole
-early ATF proposals
-Sea Apache
-F-20 Tigershark
-forward swept wings

[psfhellfire]

Such an interesting video, YF-23 frontal profile seriously influenced the Su-57 design, looks like china also took the data from Mig 1.44, F-35 and NAFT-23 and smashed them into the J-20 design Canards and all.

[javieriniguez]

Simply awesome! Both NATF concepts were leaps and bounds ahead of the Super hornet. The 23 NATF was a radical, and gorgeous design capable of serving today, and we'll into the future.

[flexinclouds]

Ive seen that "FBI raid" meme 100's of times. But this was the first time I actually laughed out loud from it😂. The way you used it was pure Gold😁👍

[ftc]

What? Seaweed? I'm already in LOVE with this thing. Looks just as great as the original YF23.

[aurorajones]

10:47 And honestly in war, true war. All your best equipment, tooling, is gobbled up in the opening act. If your reliant on super high tech. That stuff is gone, or at best a long time out. Keeping stuff like this around is gold.

[tinararas]

Lol, the meme about the 5th gen jet should've had Northrop Grumman running from Lockheed Martin

[izgvvob]

It wasn't just that the Navy was over budget by the end of 1991, it was that the Soviet Union ceased to be a main adversary by the end of 1991.

[sans-the-skeleton-fr]

>sees new "ATF" program going on
>cooks an ACE COMBAT-looking superfighter design
>USAF rejects it
>few years later
>switches positions of the main wings and horizontal stabilizers, and adds spiked vertical stabilizers along with a targeting camera and arrestor hook
>now it really looks like some ACE COMBAT shii
>"USN senpai please notice my plane"
>navy goes "yo cuz that shit fire"
>US government goes "ayo come look at this"
>it's some new fighter program
>navy goes "yo that Y/F-35 be looking lit asf"
>"FU-"

[swisstestpilot]

Wownoteven watched 1Minute and there is a cool detail.. On the NATF-23 cockpit is the name of Toni "Brick" Wilson.... "Brick" is Lockheeds F-35 Pilot and I had the pleasure to meet him in person and get a ride in the F-35A simulator at the "Zigermeet" airshow in Mollis (Canton Glarus /Switzerland) 2019.

[Shockwave]

With the F/A 18F being my all time favorite plane, I'm glad it's here to stay for a while longer. If possible I'd like to see a video on what a possible stealth hornet would be like. I've always wanted to see a stealth F/A 18 or at least an idea, assuming you keep most of the main visual features.

[edfleming]

A quarter of the show is an add for a pay to play game. I found it and explained it.