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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
AT-6 Qualifies For Afghan Contract
The Hawker Beechcraft AT-6 light attack and armed reconnaissance aircraft, designed to meet the U.S. Air Force’s Building Partnership Capacity needs including those of the Afghanistan air force, continues to move through its end-to-end weapons validation testing with the launch of four 500-lb. GBU-12 Paveway II precision-guided bombs last week, says Derek Hess, director of the AT-6 program for Hawker Beechcraft.
All weapons were scored as valid hits by the combined USAF-Hawker Beechcraft assessment team.
The tests are part of an Air National Guard-sponsored project conducted at the ANG/Air Force Reserve Command Test Center in Tucson, Ariz.
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