YF-23 Black Widow II

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The YF-23 Black Widow II was an experimental stealth fighter prototype developed by Northrop/McDonnell Douglas for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter program, competing against what became the F-22 Raptor.

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf experimental aircraft
prototype fighter aircraft
stealth aircraft
twin‑engine jet aircraft
aircraftCategory fifth-generation fighter prototype
airForceDesignation YF-23 Black Widow II self-linksurface differs
surface form: YF-23
airframeMaterial composite materials
armamentProvision internal air-to-air missiles
competedWith F-22 Raptor
surface form: YF-22
configuration tailless-style main wing with canted fins
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
crew 1
designedForCapability beyond-visual-range combat
low radar cross-section
supercruise
designEmphasis stealth over extreme agility
developedFor United States Air Force
developedForProgram Advanced Tactical Fighter program
engineOption General Electric YF120
Pratt & Whitney F119
surface form: Pratt & Whitney YF119
engineType turbofan
era late Cold War
feature diamond-shaped wing planform
internal weapons bays
stealth shaping
twin outward-canted vertical stabilizers
firstFlightDate 1990-08-27
hasVariant YF-23 Black Widow II self-linksurface differs
surface form: YF-23 PAV-1

YF-23 Black Widow II self-linksurface differs
surface form: YF-23 PAV-2
intendedMissionProfile deep penetration strike
high-altitude interception
lostTo F-22 Raptor
manufacturer McDonnell Douglas
Northrop
nickname Black Widow II
numberBuilt 2
operatorDuringTesting United States Air Force
powerplantCount 2
preservedAt National Museum of the United States Air Force
Western Museum of Flight
program Advanced Tactical Fighter program
surface form: Advanced Tactical Fighter
programOutcome not selected for production
role air superiority fighter
tactical fighter
status retired prototype
successorInService F-22 Raptor
testPhase flight test and evaluation
usedInCompetition Advanced Tactical Fighter flyoff

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: YF-23 Black Widow II
Description of subject: The YF-23 Black Widow II was an experimental stealth fighter prototype developed by Northrop/McDonnell Douglas for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter program, competing against what became the F-22 Raptor.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

F-22 Raptor basedOnCompetitionWith YF-23 Black Widow II
F-22 Raptor wonAgainst YF-23 Black Widow II
this entity surface form: Northrop YF-23
YF-23 Black Widow II airForceDesignation YF-23 Black Widow II self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: YF-23
YF-23 Black Widow II hasVariant YF-23 Black Widow II self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: YF-23 PAV-1
YF-23 Black Widow II hasVariant YF-23 Black Widow II self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: YF-23 PAV-2
Advanced Tactical Fighter program loser YF-23 Black Widow II
this entity surface form: Northrop YF-23
Advanced Tactical Fighter program aircraftDevelopedUnderProgram YF-23 Black Widow II
this entity surface form: YF-23
Pratt & Whitney F119 usedOnAircraft YF-23 Black Widow II
this entity surface form: YF-23 (prototype evaluation, derivative engines)