Could recommend F-35 high-velocity penetrator

Air Force To Outbrief AFROC, JROC On Hard Target Munitions Analysis

/ April 2, 2015 at 5:41 PM
The Air Force could soon start building a next-generation family of bunker-killing weapons to include the Air Force Research Laboratory's 2,000-pound High Velocity Penetrating Weapon for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, following the internal release of the service's classified hard-target munitions analysis of alternatives. Air Combat Command is due to outbrief the report to senior leaders on the Air Force Requirements Oversight Council in June before taking its recommendations to the higher Joint Requirements Oversight Council in the mid-summer time...

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