Plans take shape for bomber aircraft that functions as an arsenal plane

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U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) officials may select a bomber aircraft already in the Air Force's inventory to become its munitions-packed arsenal plane, says Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics. The Air Force in June flew its first test flight of the AGM-183A Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon, a hypersonic weapon known as ARRW (pronounced "Arrow").