Popular Culture
The fictional F/A-37 Talon (shown), which starred in the 2005 film Stealth, had the "Switchblade's" swing-wing design. The Talon was capable of at least Mach 4, and used a pair of scramjets/pulse detonation engines for all flight speeds from subsonic to hypersonic.
Also in the 2002 film I-Spy (film), there is a plane which looks incredibly similar to the Northrop Switchblade and is called "Switchblade" or "the Switchblade" (though Eddie Murphy's character calls it "The Leafy Bug"), it has the technology to turn invisible.
The designers of Ace Combat incorporated the design into the similar X-02 Wyvern, an experimental fighter which has featured in Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War and Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception.
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