Finland Greenlights Small Diameter Bomb Buy For F-35

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Finnish F-35A.

Credit: Lockheed Martin/Finnish Air Force
The Finnish government has given the go-ahead for the country’s Defense Forces Logistics Command to procure RTX GBU-53 Small Diameter Bomb II munitions to equip its fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35As. The purchase of the glide bombs gives Finland a weapons capability it did not previously have, said...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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