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Friday, January 09, 2015

Pentagon: F-35 Gun Will Fire in 2017

F-35 AF-2 Lightning IIThe gun on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet will fire in 2017, according to the Pentagon.

Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the F-35 program office, said the fifth-generation stealth fighter’s GAU-22 gun and the Electro-Optical Targeting System — two key systems to provide close air support to ground troops — will be operational with the installation of the Block 3F software update in fiscal 2017.

The Jan. 7 statement from the program office followed recent news articles in The Daily Beast quoting unnamed Air Force officials saying the gun won’t work for most pilots until 2019 and that the targeting system is already outdated compared to similar systems on existing fourth-generation fighters.

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