Navy on track to integrate SDB II with Super Hornet by 2020

By Mallory Shelbourne / September 10, 2018 at 5:00 AM
The Navy is on track to field the Small Diameter Bomb Increment II on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet by its goal of fiscal year 2020, according to a spokesman for Naval Air Systems Command. NAVAIR's Michael Land told Inside the Navy in an email the service does not need to make "physical modifications" to the Super Hornet for the integration. The integration "includes aeromechanical certification for safe carriage and release, and software support for weapon employment," Land wrote. While Super...

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