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Lockheed F-19A Stealth Fighter

F-19 is a designation for a hypothetical United States fighter aircraft that has never been officially acknowledged, and has engendered much speculation that it might refer to a type of aircraft whose existence is still classified.
History

Since the unification of the numbering system in 1962, U.S. fighters have been designated by consecutive numbers, beginning with the F-1 Fury. F-13 was never assigned to a fighter due to superstition, though the designation had previously been used for a reconnaissance version of the B-29. After the F/A-18 Hornet, the next announced aircraft was the F-20 Tigershark. Northrop had requested the "F-20" designation, but the USAF proposed F-19 instead. The USAF finally gave approval for the F-20 designation in 1982.[1] There have been a number of theories put forth to explain this omission, but none have ever been confirmed.

The most prevalent theory in the 1980s was that "F-19" was the designation of the stealth fighter whose development was an open secret in the aerospace community. When the actual aircraft was publicly revealed in 1988, it was called the F-117 Nighthawk. There seems to be no evidence that "F-19" was ever used to designate the Nighthawk, although the National Museum of the United States Air Force website does include the entry "Lockheed F-19 CSIRS (see F-117)" as of 2011.[2] Another theory suggests that F-19 was the designation applied to the Have Blue technology demonstrator which led to the development of the F-117.

• Crew: 1 pilot
• Length: 48 ft 6
• Wingspan: 24 ft
• Height: 12 ft 10 in
• Wing area: 250 ft
• Empty weight 30.000
• Loaded weight: 40.000
• Max. takeoff weight: 40.000
Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 Pitch Thrust vectoring turbofans

Dry thrust: 23,500 lb[315] (104 kN) each
Thrust with afterburner: 35,000+ lb (156+ kN) each

Fuel capacity: 18,000 lb (8,200 kg) internally, or 26,000 lb (11,900 kg) with two external fuel tanks

Armament

2 AGM-65 Maverick
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~Shadowkey392 Feb 24, 2013
Kinda looks like the alien fighters from Independence Day.
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~haryopanji Aug 14, 2012
Sweet!
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~templar127 Aug 12, 2012
Coolness!
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*GenesisStar20 Aug 12, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Cool.
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~Passin Aug 12, 2012
Excellent work for a plane that never existed.
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=bagera3005 Aug 12, 2012  Professional Interface Designer
in public you don't know if it was really built or not
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~Passin Aug 12, 2012
True, BUT with it's inability to carry a decent payload, it would hardly be worth operating. Add the fact that Have Blue, The Nighthawk and B-2 are all in the open and with the rise of the F-22 Raptor and it seems unlikely to be worth keeping secret. I could of course be wrong
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=bagera3005 Aug 12, 2012  Professional Interface Designer
f-117 only had 2 on bord
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~Passin Aug 13, 2012
Yes, BUT those were two Laser-guided bombs capable of delivering a great deal more punch than the F-119's supposed capabilities
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~Nullcast Aug 11, 2012
I had a toy of this "design". It's like a weir combination of a B-1 and a SR-71 pretty much guessing from past machines and known capabilities.
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