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So what's the explanation for this? Does Northrop just have some alien tech that no one else does?
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>>65338602
Yes,but it's not lack of jet testicles.
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>>65338602
Yes.

It goss like this. In the 1970s The NRO operates the satellites that Northrop designed and built. Northrop discovers or figures out that there’s an NRO SAP that’s using specific satellites to monitor UAP traffic and also to alert retrieval teams for downed/crashed vehicles. Northrop spins up their own retrieval teams and uses their own satellites to do the same thing before the NRO can. Northrop becomes it’s own fief within the offworld tech space with its own infrastructure separate from the DoE and DoD, much like SAIC, MITRE, and a few others.
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>>65338602
The F-35 I believe shows the wing folding mechanism for the C. The other models lack that bulge, so it isn’t for the actuators
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>>65338657
The A and B models don't have separate flaps and ailerons, so they can hide it in the landing gear fairing.
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F35C needs larger and folding wings, so it has to split the flap thus needed the bulge on the wing for the actuators.
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>>65338602
>Does Northrop just have some alien tech that no one else does?
yes but unironically
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>>65338602
>So what's the explanation for this?

The YF-23 used hydraulic actuators whereas the other aircraft use separate electric motors for each control surface.
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>>65338602
>f22
operational plane
>f35
operational plane
>chink plane 1
operational plane
>chink plane 2
operational (?) plane
>su57
"operational" plane
>yf23
prototype
hope this helps
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>>65338602
>Does Northrop just have some alien tech that no one else does?
Yes.
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>have ayy tech
>still lose to Locksneed

Make it make sense
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>>65339431
Northrop had B-2 contract.
So it was considered fair to give LM "their turn"
>You win this program, they win next program.
Something like this.
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>>65339441
Also Cheney had it out for Northrop because of >>65338623

He was deeply read-in on the legacy ufo programs. Northrop became their own player in the 70s-80s and had actually made some decent progress on the tech. It’s also why some of it was handed over to Lockheed by the government in the late 80s in an effort to have some semblance of balance and hence why Ben Rich of the skunk works started making strange references to such technology in the late 80s/early90s at public speaking engagements, he was rightfully excited. The old structure was the department of energy and the officer of the director of national intelligence, along with some partnering with DIA, CIA, and department of defense would acquire, control, research, experiment on, and develop the tech from extraterrestrial sources and then pass off this information to defense contractors and technology firms to further develop and patent. Then a few private companies, Northrop being one of em, took the initiative to retrieve or obtain their own samples to work on. The XF131 sentinel being a notable example. The trail/story behind how that one is out in the open is a fun rabbit hole.
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>>65339386
Then why couldn't Lockmart do it on their prototype?
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>>65339800
Fuck off incel
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>>65339906
Every time this topic is brought up with accurate-ish detail of events, even with information that’s way out in the open, you florida fuckers come in and start shitposting
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>>65339823
Hi anon, are you the guy who thinks yf22 is completely different f22 since it took them 10 or so years to (make an entire new plane) mass produced yf22. If you are, any sources to read? Im very intrigued in Boeing's prototype
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>>65340066
Nope, not that anon. I've seen some stuff about the changes from the YF-22 to F-22, like improving the fineness ratio to meet requirements, but idk about Boeing's design.
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>>65338602
what am i lookin at here
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>>65340106
Anon, there are big red circles around the actuator fairings, except the YF-23 which has none.
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>>65340106
a cute belly (top right)
pure sex on wings (lower right)
and some planes
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>>65340106
YF-23's dfc.
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>>65338623
>>65339800
why haven't the other agencies/groups just killed every Northrop employee involved lmao
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>>65340316
Northrop has patrician taste.
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>>65338623
>>65339800
>has alien tech
>still use jet and wings to fly
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>>65340367
Because they probably don’t know exactly what Northrop had done e until well after the fact, it has worked out for the better this way, and what would it accomplish?
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>>65340785
demonstrating to every other contractor that going rogue = die
in theory only of course. in reality the entire government is compromised top to bottom by corporate niggers and has been for a fucking century
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>>65340066
I am (one of) the guys who will argue that the full production F-22 is significantly different enough from the ATF flyoff contest YF22. More different in total sum of changes than the presumed "F-23A" model that was made for DCS World, is from the YF23.

I'm also not saying they are _fundamentally different_ planes, just that the 7 years of finalization improvements are significant enough to call the 1991 airplane "v0.5 beta" compared to the full plane's "v1.0"
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>>65340905
>"F-23A" model that was made for DCS World
You know that Northrop made one first, right? Also, the blueprints show how they were able to get away without a fairing. They just used several small actuators instead of one big one lol.
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>>65340430
lewd
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>>65340782
No you idiot you see they have it but they can't use it without others knowing they have it. So they COULD if they wanted to but won't and never will and conspiracy theorists are retarded.
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>>65338623
>downed/crashed vehicles.
How is it that these UFOs are only downed/crash in the continental US and never anywhere else?
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>>65341564
>open information
>conspiracy
>if they have it then they can make it

Please.

It would be like sending a car back to the 1500s. They might pull apart some stuff and figure out a few things, and may even know how to turn it on, but they’d have no idea how to investment cast an engine block, or make plastic, or even make the foam in the seats let alone the toluenediisocyanate to foam the polymer to make the foam seats. But they’d get ideas.
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>>65341881
They happen all over. UK, Brazil, Russia. Kazakhstan, Italy, China, Denmark, the fuck you taking about?
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>>65341881
Because the US is that much more advanced, other countries aren't worth visiting.
>>65341899
This anon is delusional.
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>>65341881
Because US is just full of delusional people. And in Demohcracy delulu people elect delulu prezident too.
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>northrop has alien tech
>loses atf
>doesn’t make jsf
>loses ngad
>strongest argument for f/a-xx is industrial base health
>aargm-er may be replaced before entering service
I don’t know guys, they really don’t seem to have their shit together.
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>>65342079
>loses atf
Deserved to win
>doesn’t make jsf
That's where you're wrong kiddo
>loses ngad
Dropped out to focus on F/A-XX (read: they knew someone else would be picked since they already had the B-21 contract with the Air Force)
>strongest argument for f/a-xx is industrial base health
That's the argument against it, but everyone suspects Northrop will win anyway because Boeing
>aargm-er may be replaced before entering service
It's already in service and they're working on additional derivatives



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