
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…