Top Air Force general doesn’t know if F-22 successor will even fly

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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh doesn’t know if the successor to the F-22 Raptor, the Air Force’s fifth generation fighter, will fly.

“I don’t even know that it’s an airplane,” Welsh told reporters Wednesday morning. “I wouldn’t try and characterize it or describe it. I have no idea yet what it’s going to look like, even is, whether it flies, or whether it’s a combination of things — just don’t know.”

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