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    The USAF wants to use the F-35 as a stealth scout plane

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    02.08.2016

    The F-35 Lightning II is the most advanced multirole fighter America's ever built. Problem is, that to maintain its stealth capabilities, it has to store all of its munitions within its body. This significantly limits the amount of damage it can deal to enemy forces. That's why the US Air Force wants to convert for use as forward scouts and leave the heavy weaponry to remotely-guided "arsenal" planes.