Air Force opens testing on 500-pound JDAMs for B-2

The U.S. Air Force has launched a two-year-long series of flight tests designed to integrate 500-pound smart bombs on the B-2 stealth fleet, a potentially radical innovation for precision-guided bombing. Air Force officials hope the flight tests will validate the B-2's ability to carry 80 smart...

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