JASSM, in test, fails to fly entire route

Members of the U.S. Air Force's 46th Test Wing are scratching their heads over what went wrong yesterday when the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) they were testing dove into the Gulf of Mexico a little over a third of the way into its mission. "The missile didn't fly its entire route,"...

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