New The Rockwell Xfv-12 Was A Paradigm Supersonic United States Navy Fighter Which Was Built Inwards 1977.

The XFV-12 pattern attempted to combine the Mach ii speed together with AIM-7 Sparrow armament of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II inwards a VTOL (vertical takeoff together with landing) fighter for the pocket-size Sea Control Ship which was nether report at the time.

On paper, it looked superior to the subsonic Hawker Siddeley Harrier assail fighter. However, it proved unable to create plenty thrust for vertical flight, fifty-fifty amongst an installed engine delivering to a greater extent than thrust than its empty weight, together with the projection was abandoned.

Ground testing began inwards 1977 , next the tests, together with amongst the computer program suffering from damage overruns, the Navy decided the XFV-12A was non worth farther development, together with cancelled the projection inwards 1981

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