BACK TO THE FUTURE!
AVIATION PING!...............
Re-submitting a design isn't uncommon in aviation history. But sometimes a company that really doesn't expect to win just throws out a re-worked design that doesn't necessarily check all the service's boxes.
“I Have a Dream” by Northrup-Grumman.
The Raider is not enough.
The 23 should have won. I’d never give another contract to Lockheed-Martin after what they did to the 22 and the debacle of the 35. They have plenty of other cash cows to exploit.
Northrup should also have succeeded with the F-20 but they just don’t have their suction in the right pit. Besides, the F-16 looked way cooler than the 20. I guess they sort of won after all the dust settled anyway. One wonders if and where further consolidation of the industry will go in time since six have become three? Boing (sic) has their bone to chew on with the enhanced 15 and the 47 now. What of Lockheed now? We rotate the weak sister position just to be fair and keep the politicians fed but it does not seem to keep anybody honest or superior in terms of production efficiency and delivered cost. A strictly qualitative observation and opinion.
All it has to do is be able to fire a 60nm AMRAAM at someone
“The Black Widow suffered from none of these problems, and thus led a fruitful career as an imaginary alternative to the Raptor.”
Heh, heh. What a dig!