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2016-01-20 Science & Technology

Combat-Coded F-35A to Begin Dropping Bombs

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-01-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I'm sensing a B1-b moment.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-01-20 06:26|| 2016-01-20 06:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought you could shove a Paveway out of a loading door and would hit its target if it sees the reflected light of the designating laser.

Maybe I was wrong.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-01-20 08:38|| 2016-01-20 08:38|| Front Page Top

#3 How are they scoring this?

Like horseshoes?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2016-01-20 09:42|| 2016-01-20 09:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Even if they have to fly the plane into the ground, it's counts as a success if the bomb blows up.

Posted by gorb 2016-01-20 11:14|| 2016-01-20 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 By the time they get this critter fully ready for combat, kids born the same year they started the project will be too old to fly it..

Posted by Jomoque Gloluling2438 2016-01-20 12:25|| 2016-01-20 12:25|| Front Page Top

#6 IOC for the AF variant is late this year? The C carrier version 2018? May have that backasswards, wouldn't be the 10,000th time. B version already IOC preparing to deploy to Japan? And evidently doing expeditionary training somewhere near Pappy

Posted by Shipman 2016-01-20 16:46|| 2016-01-20 16:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Should be unexciting.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-01-20 17:27|| 2016-01-20 17:27|| Front Page Top

#8 It is exactly that STP.

Posted by Shipman 2016-01-20 21:18|| 2016-01-20 21:18|| Front Page Top

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