Rafael Typhoon series info here http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/naval/typhoon/Typhoon.html

Navy to Christen the Littoral Surface Craft – Experimental (X-Craft)
http://www.onr.navy.mil/media/article.asp?ID=81

The USS Sea Fighter, its different.

Both the aircraft either matched or exceeded the AF requirements..and therefore were both equally good…however a significant rational can be made to favour the yf23 however the descision has been made and the f/a-22 has come around quite nicely..therefore lets not bring old skeletons out..

Same story for the JSF competiton, I guess the airforce likes conventional fighters but anything goes for bombers (F-117, B-2).

Anyone have pics of the YF-23s weapons bay?
I heard it described as big as a WW2 Lancasters:)

Well done Team US101, this is their site http://www.teamus101.com/index.cfm

I’m pretty sure that I read some where that the US Army is going to get more new build Blackhawks rather than upgrade old airframes, so Sikorsky isn’t going to suffer too much.

I think the K.I.S.S. principle is the right one for airframes and engines as it would save alot of development time and money and hopefully result in a cheaper aircraft.

But with the latest sensors (radars, designators, etc) and weapons (AMRAAM, JDAM, etc) whether a aircraft was designed as a fighter or bomber is pretty much irrelevant.

For example the original Harrier was transformed a from basic ground attack machine to a world class interceptor with the addition of Blue Vixen radar and AMRAAM missiles.
While the F-14 Tomcat interceptor became a very capable precision bomber when fitted with a designator and LGBs.

…due to political reason the JSF is the only reasonable choice!
And japan may persuade the american to transfer part of the production to japan as a reasult, so it a double wammie…

JSF is a reasonable choice, but they are too late to get a worthwhile share of the production program.

I think the capabilities of modern weapon systems make the ”not a pound for air-ground” argument obsolete.

Designs such as EF Typhoon are designed as fighter/interceptors but can carry more laser guided bombs than a Tornado.

I do think that the JSF is a flawed concept though as all 3 variants are a compromise and not as capable as a tailor made airframe/engine design with shared systems.

X-32 looked good to me, F-32 would have looked better.