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F-15E Fighter Jets Can Now Be Loaded With Twice as Many JASSM Missiles 13 May 2021, 13:55 UTC ·
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It all started with a problem. Earlier this year, during a Weapons and Tactics Conference (WEPTAC), expert tacticians were analyzing whether a formation of fighter jets would be more effective than a single bomber, in carrying Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) for missions in highly-contested environments. This way, the size of the strike package could be reduced and risks would be distributed. But the problem was that a fighter jet can only carry maximum two JASSMs.
This is how the idea of enabling a fighter to carry more than two missiles was born and the F-15E Strike Eagle was chosen as a test jet. However, Project Strike Rodeo seemed to get stuck before it even began, because these particular munitions did not fit on the F-15E’s fuel tank weapons stations. The JASSM could only be loaded straight from its container, which was too big to fit under t
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As more components across the Defense Department look to agile software development to modernize, Lockheed Martin announced it has established 12 pipelines for an Air Force software factory supporting U.S. Strategic Command.
Lockheed worked with the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center in Nebraska to establish the Rogue Blue software factory, and its cloud-based environment for DevSecOps is shortening software delivery timelines from “six months to two weeks,” according to a May 11 press release. Rogue Blue supports the nuclear-focused Global Strike and Product Su
“The work that people do here is extraordinarily important for the Air Force,” Roth said. “It’s central. Our job in our ‘organize, train, and equip’ mission is to be ready whenever the country asks us to be ready. Maintaining our airplanes, keeping our aircraft like the C-5, the C-130 and others in shape so that they can be ready to go is central to what we do.”
Along with visiting organizations around Robins AFB like the WR-ALC, Roth had the opportunity to meet with Middle Georgia community leaders.
“The community leaders are across the board extraordinarily supportive of what we do, Roth said. They’re great patriots. These kinds of communities understand who we are, what we are, and what we do for America.