US Air Force requests ideas for arsenal plane to launch long-range missiles ‘en masse’

Lockheed Martin MC-130J

Source: US Air Force

The service is debating how effective such an aircraft would be against China or Russia, both which have sophisticated anti-aircraft defences that make it difficult to fly over their sovereign territory and drop bombs.

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