The U.S. Air Force Wants to Expand the Range of This Stealthy Cruise Missiles
Dave Majumdar [2]
With advanced air defense systems such as the Russian-made S-300 and S-400 [3] families proliferating around the world, it is becoming increasingly difficult for American airpower to penetrate into airspace defended by such anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) weapons.
While advanced fifth-generation fighter aircraft and next-generation platforms such as the U.S. Air Force’s forthcoming Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider [4] and Penetrating Counter Air (PCA) [5] will be able to operate inside such heavily defended airspace, the bulk of America’s combat aircraft will comprise of a large number of older but still capable fourth-generation fighters such as the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle, Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon and the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet [6] for decades to come.
Source URL (retrieved on July 21, 2017):
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-us-air-force-wants-expand-the-range-stealthy-cruise-21602
