The F-35 has dropped its first AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) for the first time on Mar. 23.
The F-35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 conducted the first weapons separation test of an AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) from an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant March 23. During flight 180 over the NAVAIR Atlantic Test Ranges, Cmdr. Ted Dyckman, a U.S. Navy F-35 test pilot, dropped an inert JSOW from aircraft CF-05. This test is the first of a series of JSOW separation events scheduled for 2016. U.S. Navy courtesy photo by Dane Wiedmann.
U.S. Navy test pilot Cmdr. Ted “Dutch” Dyckman took F-35C, CF-05, out to the Atlantic Test Range for the historic occasion.
The test also marks the first time a non-Mk 80 series bomb was ever released from an F-35.
