![Northrop YF-17 Cobra Fighter Aircraft](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkF5KBIR7PJtDGbrGxmmD93ajE90_AIpso2E4rU1rBI_AENy1eDR-pPtvkYfMBT_Qh5EvKip-YjsLtYz1f03DXSnMvqgBWixYB2qFS4jc35fNkXBAIAYZ3xxoafwdJGR6ctkaEZ3k1j8/s800/Northrop+YF-17+Cobra+Fighter+Aircraft2.jpg)
![Northrop YF-17 Cobra Fighter Aircraft](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeSCwxZbF0XbYc7m705IR86PoIi-WqRbtBKcWtSucObVVqx64pOfoLY392LDi_qLRJgUawaLBfKftDSb_OiWhhS1uTGIU67IyFNUthVDbON2zkYqLChCvezNKdmoyPM1a1IIrEn6L3LxQ/s800/Northrop+YF-17+Cobra+Fighter+Aircraft.jpg)
The Northrop YF-17 was one of the two prototypes tested in the U.S. combat competition from Air Force Air Combat, a program that tried to reverse the trend of increasing cost and complexity of new fighter aircraft, and resulted in the selection and production of the F-16 as the fighter in the world free from the next generation. Although the YF-17 lost the competition for the USAF, which was the prototype F/A-18 U.S. Navy.
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