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Old 30th Nov 2015, 13:21
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GR - The F-22 can drop its pylons with its tanks. I don't know whether the F-35 can release its weapon pylons, but there would be less reason to do so since underwing fuel is relatively unimportant. There's only so much value in "cleaning up" after carrying out an attack in non-VLO mode.

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