Unknown cool futuristic Fighter Jet...

[retroborg]

Anyone know what this cool looking fighter jet is?!
It lools like the YF-21 from Macross Plus!

[rallynavvie]

It looks like a single-exhaust version of the YF-23? Whatever it is it probably shouldn't be on the deck of a carrier. Makes me think it's a chop.

[retroborg]

The one on the top photo looks like the jet from "Stealth" movie, but the bottom photo looks like a different concept plane!
I'm not sure that they're both from Stealth?!

[BJ_M]

since it is a movie crew filming in the one pic -.. i would say it is a prop

[stiltman]

yeah, the guy in a blue sweat jacket and camo shorts (with white tube socks) kinda gives it away

[yoda313]

I was thinking it did look the stealth movie.

And actually the macross fighters were actually based on the f14 and f16 jets from the mid 80s.

This design is much more recent.

Here is max sterlings veritech in plane mode:



(this is off the net - I do not own this )

EDIT - Sorry I didn't notice the original posters mention of MACROSS PLUS - I don't know what that looks like off the top of my head.... however it would be more recent then the original ROBOTECH .....

[guns1inger]

It is from Stealth : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/A-37_Talon#F.2FA-37_Talon

Larger version of the image : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ASW_Fake_FA37_1.jpg

[stiltman]

Well I screwed up!!!

They were long camo pants with white tennies

[sabijon]

Wow! that's the jet i wanna own, i love the style specially the front set...

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[lordsmurf]

I was thinking it did look the stealth movie.
And actually the macross fighters were actually based on the f14 and f16 jets from the mid 80s.
This design is much more recent.
Here is max sterlings veritech in plane mode:

(this is off the net - I do not own this )
EDIT - Sorry I didn't notice the original posters mention of MACROSS PLUS - I don't know what that looks like off the top of my head.... however it would be more recent then the original ROBOTECH .....

The Valkyrie's were designed in about 1980. The first movie (MacrossYRL?) was either 1981 or 1982, and the concepts were done before that by at least a year or more. The series came later. So whatever existed at that time is what it's based from.

Macross Plus has a number of interesting designs. I think that's what somebody else referred to. The YF-21 is one. But it's still not all that close to the image in the above photo.

I do have the Max-type fighters, two different ones, in fact. Both are Super's too!

If anything, the photo looks like one of the lesser-known stealths the military currently uses.

[yoda313]

If anything, the photo looks like one of the lesser-known stealths the military currently uses.

You might be thinking of the F22 (raptor I think is the nickname) - its the one used in the newer Transformers movie I'm pretty sure: