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Combat-Coded F-35A to Begin Dropping Bombs
2016-01-20
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#8  It is exactly that STP.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-01-20 21:18  

#7  Should be unexciting.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-01-20 17:27  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#3  How are they scoring this?

Like horseshoes?
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2016-01-20 09:42  

#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  

#1  I'm sensing a B1-b moment.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-01-20 06:26  

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