SCO, Air Force exploring several platforms for Arsenal Plane role

By Jason Sherman / March 31, 2016 at 7:24 PM
The Air Force is exploring the possibility of using more than one aircraft type for Arsenal Plane missions, a new concept the Pentagon hopes to prove out in a prototype capable of ferrying huge amounts of ordnance to standoff ranges that waits for strike assignments from advanced fighters close to the action. The head of the Strategic Capabilities Office, the Pentagon shop working with the Air Force on the Arsenal Plane, said the service is not at this point limiting...

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