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DOD aims to back up underarmed fighters with networked “arsenal planes”
Converted older planes would carry firepower directed by F-35s and F-22s remotely.

by Sean Gallagher - Feb 8, 2016 12:30pm GMT


With new fighters that are built for stealth, the Air Force needs something else to carry all the firepower for them: arsenal planes.

The US Air Force has a problem. While it bets its future on the stealth of the F-22 and F-35 fighters, that stealth has come at a cost: reduced weapon loads. To be stealthy, the aircraft both have to carry all of their weapons in internal bays, significantly limiting how many bombs and missiles they can carry to strike at targets on the surface and defend themselves from other fighters.



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