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From: emory!motatl!mad@gatech.edu (Mark Davidson)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: YF22 vs. YF23 Why?
Keywords: Technology at its best
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Date: 30 Apr 91 15:35:23 GMT
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From: emory!motatl!mad@gatech.edu (Mark Davidson)


john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>Perhaps look for the F-23
>as a fast stealty Air Force recon plane--the RF-23.  Any comments?

I have never understood why the YF-23 wouldn't make a VERY nice attack
aircraft with a few modifications here or there.  Stealthiness would be
MUCH more important to a ground-pounding craft than it would an
air-superiority aircraft.  It IS a decent performing aircraft already.
It just seems to me that the airforce just does not understand the
concept of ground-attack craft.  Too many fighter jocks, I guess.

	[I don't think a $100 million ground-attack fighter is what you
	want at all.  You want something cheap and heavily armored so
	you can have a lot of them.  Like, say, an A10. :-)  --CDR]

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