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HMAS Warramunga’s MH-60R Romeo aircraft is being loaded onto a RAAF C-17A aircraft at Christmas Island airport.
Topic
Technology & Innovation
Title

US Air Force's biggest planes need to do more than carry things in the next war, air-mobility general says

Author
Christopher Woody
Date of article release
16-April-2021
25 min

BLUF

The USAF plans to use cargo planes not just to deliver cargo but to launch a strike using palletised munitions/weapons that could include stand-off missiles.

Summary

PME 2
Link
Learn more about palletised munitions/weapons

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