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fromBusiness Insider
5 hours ago

The US Air Force needs to buy hundreds of sixth-gen fighters and bombers to be ready for a China fight, airpower experts say

The US Air Force needs roughly 200 B-21 bombers and 300 F-47 fighters to achieve sufficient sortie capacity against China.
fromBusiness Insider
5 months ago

The US Air Force is eyeing a new bunker-buster bomb to replace the ones used to strike Iran's nuclear sites

The New Mexico-based research and engineering firm Applied Research Associates announced last week that it received a two-year contract to build a prototype "air-to-ground Next Generation Penetrator weapon system." "ARA will also produce and test sub-scale and full-scale prototype munitions," the company said Friday, explaining that "this effort will evaluate capabilities against hard and deeply buried targets that pose critical challenges to US national security."
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