Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works released this rendering of a conceptual, stealthy tanker the size of a C-130 for the Next-Generation Air Refueling System.
Credit: Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
A strike package of eight stealth fighters heads west toward a coastal target. They are still over blue ocean, hundreds of miles east of their objective. But they have a problem: roaming enemy stealth fighters armed with ultra-long-range air-to-air missiles. The bulky weapons pose little threat to...
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