F/A-22 Drops First SDB, But Not Without Test Incident
Credit: U.S. AIR FORCE
The U.S. Air Force has successfully completed the first separation tests of the GBU-39 Small-Diameter Bomb (SDB) from the internal weapons bay of a Lockheed Martin F-22 as part of the fleet-wide Increment 3.1 upgrade program. The drop, which took place on Sept. 5, followed the earlier completion of...
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