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Air Force

Stealth Upgrades Key To Keeping U.S. Military’s Edge, Report Says

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017

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Stealth Upgrades Key To Keeping U.S. Military’s Edge, Report Says

Northrop Grumman's B-2 bomber. Photo: Air Force.

The U.S. military should continue improving its stealth aircraft technology to keep its advantage over possible rivals in the coming decades, according to a report released Aug. 2 by the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute.Stealth aircraft have played an important role in U.S. operations since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, when the F-117 stealth fighter struck strategic targets in Iraq without being detected by enemy radar. The B-2 stealth bomber and the F-117 played a similar role in the 1999…

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Space

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