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From: madmax@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Max Abramowitz)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: YF22 vs. YF23 Why?
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Date: 3 May 91 14:48:47 GMT
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From: madmax@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Max Abramowitz)


fcrary@typhoon.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary) asks:
>What new benifit would a AF-23 provide?

I think that the short answer is that the AF-23 is designed to serve
as an air superiority fighter, while the F-117 is designed to function
as a small tactical attack plane.

As to the question of why the F-117 is not the A-117, I might add why
is the F-117 and not the F-6.  By (previous) convention American
aircraft were numbered from 1 to 111.  Why the military label planes
in the manner in which they do is anybody's guess.  Perhaps it was for
security reasons, perhaps some air force general wanted to teach his
grandchild to count higher than one hundred and eleven ;-).

One thing that I have learned reading this newsgroup is that the
military operates on their own system of logic.

Ours is not to question why, our is just to talk about it.

max abramowitz
madmax@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Opinions, what opinions?