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F-35B successfully engaged two targets with AIM-120s

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An F-35B has successfully fired two AIM-120s at two different targets and destroyed them.

Test pilot Lt. Col. Andrew Allen carried out the test at the Point Mugu Sea Test Range airspace on May 27.

Still in California on the same day, a F-35A flew a 1.9 hour mission with the first-ever load of Block 3i hardware and software.

Across the continent, a F-35C carried out the aircraft’s maximum sink rate test condition of 21.4 feet per second at Naval Air Station Patuxent River.

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One thought on “F-35B successfully engaged two targets with AIM-120s”

  1. The story says the targets were engaged as part of a weapons accuracy test, there is no claim the targets were destroyed. Targets don’t have to be destroyed to have a successful test–proximity fuses allow that.

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