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Pentagon Wants a Plane Packed With Hundreds of Missiles to Beat Putin’s Air Force

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The U.S. Air Force is short hundreds of fighter jets. To make up the gap, the Pentagon has come up with a wild concept: stuff hundreds of missiles into Cold War-era heavy bombers.

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