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Published: 2011-03-22 12:06:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 10988; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 145
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What if Lockheed Martin answered a tender to procure a lightweight fighter by the year 2025? By reusing some of the F-35 experience and engineering, they might come up with this VLF (Very Light Fighter) contender, the Lockheed Martin YF-45A Starbolt... that is, unless some clever Congressmen decide to give it the axe...And by the way... the sole air intake is ventral...
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Is it bad that I would much prefer to fly this jet more than the F-35? XD
Great job by the way dude!
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What can I say? It's simply BRILLIANT!! Especially the first link! Thanks for this beautiful discovery.
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Just realised something funny about your gallery, no single engine...Rafale?
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That would look too much like a canardless Mirage 2000 to me I guess...
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Which is one of the bad ass looking jets too, especially the twin seater
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Yeah, but the Rafale is the best looking of them all, isn't it?
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Damn, that Mig-41 is awesome!
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Well, if you think about it, ultra-light fighter might come in handy, for protecting carriers and fighting in local conflicts. (It is been said, that for a number of milltary operations in 2000s Il-2 would be no less useful than MiG-29 and F-16).
By the way, can you make something Flanker or PAK-FA based?
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