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A Raptor strategic bomber is being studied

Washington, USA - It will have to fill the speed and self-defence gap of Night Hawk and Spirit

US Air Force exigency for a new fighter-bomber able to well perform deep-strike missions and the ones with stand-off weapons is growing. The most probable hypothesis presently appears to be the one related to a F-22 Raptor special version, re-called F/B-22 and provided with a very new wing "formula". This new airplane will have to gain a sufficiently high range even if it will have not to become necessarily...

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Rome, Italy, 03/01/2004 18:57
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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