F-35 stealth fighters strike simulated cruise missile battery, hand off targeting data to Army rockets in Arctic defense drill
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Recently, the Pentagon has authorized the start of the initial low-scale production phase (LRIP) of the new AESA AN/APG-85 radar to equip the fifth generation F-35 Block IV fighter bombers. The system, developed by the US firm Northrop Grumman, is a key technological element of the Block IV modernization program of the [...] The entry The Pentagon gives green light to start the initial production of the new APG-85 radar that will equip the F-35 …
F-35 stealth fighters strike simulated cruise missile battery, hand off targeting data to Army rockets in Arctic defense drill
Two F-35As assigned to the 356th Fighter Squadron took off from Eielson Air Force Base on August 4 after refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker, part of Operation TUNDRA MERLIN. The jets located the simulated target, executed what the Air Force termed a constructive kill, and transmitted the coordinates to an Army High Mobility Artillery Rocket System crew waiting nearby — linking a fifth-generation fighter’s sensors directly to a ground-based sho…
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