5. Many Variants & Derivatives Of The F-22 Were Planned & Scrapped
There were variants & derivatives planned for the F-22 Raptor that never came to fruition. The F-22B, for example, was designed to have two-seats. It was scraped to save development costs in 1996. Another variant was the Naval F-22. The United States Navy’s Navy Advanced Tactical Fighter (NATF) wanted to replace the F-14 with an F-22 that had variable-sweep wings. In 1993, The program was ultimately canceled in 1993. As for derivatives, the FB-22 and X-44 MANTA were proposed. The FB-22 was planned as a medium-range supersonic stealth bomber while the X-44 featured thrust vectoring controls. The FB-22 was seemingly canceled in 2006, and the X-44 Manta program ceased in 2000.