MFS Lockheed Martin FB-22 from About Marine RM

EmoBirb said:
Not surprising this has been popularized, as it's rather aesthetically pleasing, compared to the proposed configurations which were terrific abominations beyond the FB-22-1.
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That was my favorite too. If they wanted an "FB" it should have been the FB-23.
 
I don't think the FB-22-2 was too bad looking, and IMO was the most sensible of the bunch alongside -1. Meanwhile -3 and -4 were just rather silly.

Sferrin said:
That was my favorite too. If they wanted an "FB" it should have been the FB-23.
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I'd have to agree. The FB-23 greatly benefits from being more a clean-sheet design while the FB-22 proposals were of course trying to make as much use of the existing F-22 production line as possible.

Taking the stretched/widened fuselage of FB-22-1 and combining with a delta-type wing similar to on -2 seems like it could have produced something more capable than the known FB-22 concepts.
 
FB-23 would have derived as much as possible from the YF/F-23 configurations, really, just a larger F-23.
 
Hydroman said:
FB-23 would have derived as much as possible from the YF/F-23 configurations, really, just a larger F-23.
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Clean sheet is the wrong term I guess. Its clearly based off work done on the design and configuration of the F-23, but since there was no existing production line there is no attempt to reuse sections of that airframe. The FB-22 meanwhile was trying to do that to reduce costs, but being constrained by that means it would have been less capable than the FB-23.
 

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