Northrop YF-17 Cobra - A Short History

The Northrop YF-17, sometimes nicknamed Cobra, was a prototype jet fighter produced by Northrop in response to the US Air Force's Lightweight Fighter program. It was intended as a smaller, less costly alternative to the larger fighter jets of the time.

The YF-17 lost to the General Dynamics YF-16, but the design would serve as the base of the F-18 Hornet.

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Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonne..., License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) - the text has been modified and shortened.

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