January 2004
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The US Air Force (USAF) intends to solidify its vision of the next-generation long-range strike capabilities it will pursue in coming decades. USAF is looking ahead to the Fiscal Year 2006 budget planning cycle to establish the path ahead. The air force is seeking a portfolio of capabilities that would give it the reach, capacity for precision delivery and persistence to dominate future battlefields and destroy targets. Talk of future capabilities should not diminish the significance of the improvements that the air force has made to its existing long-range strike capabilities.