An inert GBU-12 bomb, dropped by an F-35A, impacts next to its intended target during testing of the close air support capabilities of the F-35A at Sailor Range, part of the Mountain Home Air Force Base complex, Idaho, Feb 16, 2016. Joint Terminal Attack Controllers JTAC of Naval Special Warfare Group 1 directed attacks by six operational test and evaluation F-35As, supported by more than 85 Airmen, of the 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron, a tenant unit at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., which travelled to Mountain Home AFB to conduct the first simulated deployment test of the F-35A, specific
An inert GBU-12 bomb, dropped by an F-35A, impacts next to its intended target during testing of the close air support capabilities of the F-35A at Sailor Range, part of the Mountain Home Air Force Base complex, Idaho, Feb 16, 2016. Joint Terminal Attack Controllers JTAC of Naval Special Warfare Group 1 directed attacks by six operational test and evaluation F-35As, supported by more than 85 Airmen, of the 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron, a tenant unit at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., which travelled to Mountain Home AFB to conduct the first simulated deployment test of the F-35A, specifically to execute three key initial operational capability mission sets: suppression of enemy air defenses, close air support and air interdiction. Eddins Jr.
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