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Old 28th Apr 2013, 15:54
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F-22 & B-2 MADL integration was being planned but got kicked down the road a couple of years ago - because of money, and probably also because it was recognized that the sky was not going to be full of F-35s in 2015. The idea was to fit the stealth jets with MADL and then have a standoff. high-altitude gateway linking them to the rest of the world.

And then there's the RUMINT that the U.S. has done the B-2 radar trick on MADL - putting it smack-dab in a frequency band that has been flogged off for future satellite HDTV. Woopsers.
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