Northrop / McDonnell Douglas ATF - YF-23 and EMD F-23

[flateric]

Searching for 'IRST' in this same thread will bring you answers with pics. Fact that Lockheed wanted side-looking AESA doesn't obligatory mean that Northrop team wanted the same.

 

[Colonial-Marine]

Searching for 'IRST' in this same thread will bring you answers with pics. Fact that Lockheed wanted side-looking AESA doesn't obligatory mean that Northrop team wanted the same.

I see the picture you are referencing. The section of fuselage it was attached to just seemed quite different from the shape on the F-22 so I wasn't sure. That and the logo being the right-way up even though the whole assembly is flipped upside-down.

I had thought the side AESA arrays were because of a stated ATF requirement for greater radar coverage, in which case the F-23 would have to have some answer (presumably similar or some sort of array in the leading edge of the wing). But maybe it was never a requirement at all.

 

[flateric]

I don't see any internal volume provisions or apertures for side looking AESA arrays here. I see pair of MLD apertures at top and bottom though.

 

[flateric]

But I still may be wrong.