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Air Force

Schwartz: Air Force Will Make ‘Best Effort’ Not To ‘Overdesign’ Next Long-Range Strike Bomber

Friday, February 10th, 2012

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The Air Force will make its “best effort” to not “overdesign” its next optionally-manned, long-range strike bomber in its plan to produce a platform deliverable by the 2020s, its chief of staff said yesterday. At a Center for Strategic and International Studies luncheon in Washington, Gen. Norton Schwartz said the service’s goal is to produce a bomber by the mid-2020s that would connect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities and other sensors that would allow the Air Force to produce a…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

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