VIDEO & PICTURE: F-35A releases first air-launched weapon

F-35 JDAM fire

Lockheed Martin's F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has performed its first in-flight weapons release, with conventional take-off and landing test aircraft AF-1 having dropped a JDAM-series GBU-31 908kg (2,000lb) bomb on 16 October.

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