Even with serious upgrades to the mobility+High G turns, it has a really large turn radius

Well yeah

That was the goal of the YF-23

Go REALLY fast and be sneeki beeki

Sure, but it has nothing else going for it

not even good ordinance

The HVAA is pretty good if you can get away from the furball and ambush or want to bean annoying AI in the campaign, but that's just about it.

Doesn't it get a tls pod

tls is hot trash

like

it's seriously underpowered

@Innaswamp lmao nope

Only HVAA, 4AAM, and UGB

I rock 4aams

Boom and zoom

The F-35 seems pretty damn good, despite being a dumpster fire IRL so far

The YF-23 should have a significant ordnance payload, that's odd

It was basically a hybrid of an interceptor/intruder/strike bomber

The YF version didn't have way too much, but I bet it would have gotten expanded. Regardless, it isn't too bad at all.

Pretty good for the campaign, but I much prefer the F-15E if I need a fast-ish multirole.

Well it was immediately reproposed to the Navy as a F/B, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it could have carried a LOT of ordnance.

One sec, let me ask someone.

And if they don't have the answer, then wiki might have it.

According to it's Wikipedia page, it had provisions made for a M61 Vulcan, 2x AIM-9Xs, and 4x AIM-120s.

Though I wouldn't be surprised if the Navy did try to edge in a reconfiguration considering the FB-22 concept was a thing.

But I don't know off the top of my head if they actually did try to make a pitch for it or not.

It's OK for some campaign missions, but absolute garbo for MP

F-22 can't carry much more than the YF-23 now that I've checked. Dunno if the YF could have handled such a large internal bay though.

You really gotta hope the enemy is dumb enough to either head on or stall

ye

I've been caught in a stall fight a few times.

And the the F-22 was more so what the USAF was looking for at the time from my understanding. Better overall, but the YF-23 wasn't bad either.

Regardless, the only mission I think I've really used the YF-23 a lot in AC7 would be M19.

Ambushes on the drone leads are EZ.

The F-22 is overall better than the YF-23. It's more maneuverable and more stable with better stealth capabilities. I think it's only downfall IRL is it's a tad slower

Which isn't saying much since it's cleared for mach 2.5

Wrong on stealth

YF-23 had a lower RCS and higher top speed

F-22 was more maneuverable but a decent bit slower

It was basically a choice of "interceptor" or "fighter", which would have worked but the Air Force is retarded and can't make up their minds.

So they took the fighter, and then immediately forced it in to an interceptor and F/B role