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Air Force to Test Data-Sharing Between F-22 and F-35 Fighters and X-37B Spaceplane

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Air Force to Test Data-Sharing Between F-22 and F-35 Fighters and X-37B Spaceplane
The F-35, A-10 and F-22 Demo Teams perform a Heritage Flight formation with an F-86 Sabre during Thunder and Lighting Over Arizona at Davis-Monthan AFB, March 23, 2019. The F-35 Demo Team pilot Capt. Andrew "Dojo" Olson flew from Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., to participate in the formation. (U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Alexander Cook)

The Air Force is planning a December exercise that will test ways to get the F-22 and F-35 fighter jets and the X-37B spaceplane to transmit data in a contested domain, service officials said Nov. 7. Speaking at the Defense One Outlook 2020 conference in Washington, D.C., Preston Dunlap, the Air Force’s new advanced battle management system (ABMS) architect, said the service is planning a four-monthlong exercise where it will connect the two fifth-generation fighter jets to its experimental spaceplane…

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