That's not as much as the f16v

F16v is 121m

F-35B 101.3million

The b is the most technically complicated one

F-35C 94.4million

C is the Carrier variant

I know

and one that the Navy doesn't want because it doesn't have 2 engines

Why doesn't the navy like single engine

I mean, I get it that you don't have a back up engine in case of a flame out and the project was backed up by supply and bugs, but its still a damn fine plane

F35 gets too much shit

> Why doesn't the navy like single engine
@Identity crisis the plane Security reasons, in the event of a flame out, you still have 1 engine to propel you home

> F35 gets too much shit
@Identity crisis the plane Tell that to the reformers, they literally made fake news about the plane in order to prevent export buyers

Why not just convert the yf23 into a carrier aircraft

> Why not just convert the yf23 into a carrier aircraft
@Identity crisis the plane YF23 is prohibitly expensive to maintain, its exhaust silica tiles are millions as well as the stealth paint

The yf23 was killed by politics, the original plan was that since the f22 won the contest, the yf23 would be naval, but politicians cancelled that

But the YF23 also had a lot of fees to consider and the fact that YF23 didn't do any weapons testing made F-22 more appealing

The yf23 still is an amazing aircraft on par or superior to the yf22

plus consider the fact that F-22 doesn't use Silica tiles to hide its exhaust signature

> The yf23 still is an amazing aircraft on par or superior to the yf22
@Identity crisis the plane Maybe more agile, but more expensive and hangar queen to maintain

The f22 was more agile actually

F22 had thrust vectoring and was smaller

Heard the other way around

Yess the 55.86 is a Majical machine

The yf23 was stealthier, faster and had better range but wasn't as agile

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Have you heard of Super cruise?

Yf23 and yf22 had supercruise

Yf23 supercruise is faster than f16 on full afterburner

> Yf23 and yf22 had supercruise
@Identity crisis the plane Never heard of YF23 having it, last I knew it used a different engine with no supercruise

The requirement was supercruise for both planes

Interesting...

The yf23 has supercruise

so there was media black out for YF23...

I'm not sure

You just said YF 23 had Supercruise and both planes were supposed to have it

meanwhile my sources state that only F-22 has it

What source

which is not only peculiar, but also strange