Oli, you HAVE to be the most moronic bozo I have ever run into on the Internet. How can you make these claims above and keep from being too embarrassed to even post here again? F-22 never "black".
I can make the claim because, unlike you, I keep track of aerospace projects.
There
is a difference between "classified" and "black", and F-22 was ALWAYS in the white budget (as a follow-on to F-15). Aspects are classified, but it was never, ever black.
Just because Stealth technology was public knowledge when the F-22 replaced the F-117
F-22 is a replacement for F-15, not F-117.
As stated above - some aspects of F-22 are classified (and may at one time have been black) but the F-22 programme as a whole was thoroughly white.
There is NO hope for you and YES, the Aurora, despite your ridiculous and absurd claims, is most likely flying RIGHT NOW.
No it isn't - it doesn't exist.
ALL stealth aircraft can be technically considered the product of black programs. So YES, the F-22 & F-35 whether directly referred to as "black" or not, had all kinds of black money thrown at them within their production and development.
The product of? Nope they use technologies that are the product of, but F-22 and F-35 are both white world projects.
Incidentally, the B-2's specific development (although I only referenced the 60s flying wing with respect to it's OBVIOUS similarities to the early B-2 designs) dates back to '81.
Obvious similarities?
Um, it's a wing and it flies...
The F-117 back to at least 1978.
Only as part of CSIRS - Covert Survivable In-weather Recce-Strike.
I don't imagine the B-2 wasn't black at first and then became black after it was already acknowledged. What lunacy! I guess that's just one more big oopsy eh?
Again, B-2 was largely white but highly classified.
Read this please and LEARN something for a change:
Oh yes, the article refers to the ATF programme which led in turn to F-22. Maybe you'd be interested to know that I have copies of the designs for nearly every single proposal for ATF, and broad specifications... If it had been "black" that wouldn't be possible would it?
Check out any reliable aviation magazine for the appropriate period and artists impressions
from before first metal cutting of F-22 and F-23 abound - black programmes are denied utterly.
Please learn the difference between black and classified.
Just a snotty egotists attempt to over rule his own erectile dysfunction I guess.
Ah, you can't make an valid rebuttal so you resort to infantile attempts at insult.
Troll indeed.