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Modern American Fighter Bomber Fifth the F-35 generation, developed by Lockheed Martin, was Designed on the basis of the Soviet “Yak-141”, which was not even hidden by developers.
But few people know that another American airline Boeing in At the same time, it developed its own fighter, the F-32. That’s about it tells United States Air Force specialist Tyler Roguev in his article recently published in The Drive.
The project at that time was called X-32, the aircraft itself generally similar to the F-35, but had a number of differences, for example its shape was more streamlined, the wings looked like a screen design and etc. But that’s not the point, today many US military claim that the F-32 project was more promising, and thanks to him the United States Air Force today would have two first-class the plane.
In fact, the Americans got the F-35, which, like it turned out to be characterized by many shortcomings and is considered few effective fighter, why partners do not want to buy it USA. Why, in the 90s, was the preference given to the F-35? It is believed that the reason for this was precisely the achievements of the Russian aircraft manufacturers who were highly regarded in the world and on which, in fact, this fighter-bomber was based. However why the “damn”, ultimately, turned out to be “lumpy”, no one today can’t really say (apparently in this case too, which is good Russian – death to the American). Or doesn’t want …
F-35, recall, is a military aircraft belonging to the “family” inconspicuous and multi-functional fighters, manufactured by the company Lockheed Martin in three versions: for the United States Air Force – ground CTOL, for marine corps – STOVL with a vertical landing, for the US Navy – deck CV.
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