B-2 drops 80 500-pound JDAMs, heralding new upgrades

A Northrop Grumman B-2A has dropped 80 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bombs on a Utah test range, capping a six-month testing effort to introduce the 500-pound JDAM into the U.S. Air Force inventory. The Sept. 10 precision-strike demonstration, which targeted a simulated airstrip, also marks...

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