Comments by "leapdrive" (@leapdrive) on "Top 5 Fighters That Should Have Been Built | Best of Aviation Series by PilotPhotog f20 f16xl" video.

  1. The F-20 had morphed into the F-18 but lost out to the F-16 as the UASF fighter. However, McD with Northrop’s approval, used the Northrop design F-18 and transformed it into a carrier based navy fighter F-18A/B. Now it’s latest version is the Super Hornet. You can see the profile is still the F-20.
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  2.  @El_Zanahorios  , yes, maybe that was the designation.
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  3.  @Reach41  , they were both derived from the Northrop F-5 Tiger A. The US government assigned McDonald-Douglas, a navy fighter plane maker to design a new navy fighter after Northrop lost to the F-16 for an Air Force fighter. McD asked if they can use the Northrop F-17 design. Both the navy and Northrop agreed and the F-18 Hornet was thus born. The F-20 was just a side project that had to be killed because the agenda changed.
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  4. @ , just a misuse of a word, thank you.
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