Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Lockheed Martin’s JASSM® Extended Range Successfully Completes IOT&E Flight Testing


Lockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM®) Extended Range successfully completed U.S. Air Force Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) flight testing, scoring 20 successes in 21 flights, a success rate of 95 percent.

The JASSM-ER missiles demonstrated their effectiveness against a wide variety of operationally representative targets. The missiles were employed in all of the operational flight modes at the full range of release conditions.

These missions were designed to validate the full operational capability for the B-1B/JASSM-ER weapon system.

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