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The Aggressor Force at Nellis Air Force Base includes some especially tough customers. The aggressors will fly stealthy F-35A fighters that simulate a difficult-to-kill enemy.
We got unprecedented access to see for ourselves what it is like flying on a Combat Archer air-to-air missile shoot sortie.
Evaluating the efficacy of a missile starts with how it is assembled and loaded on the ground and ends with it scoring a 'kill' or not.
Combat Archer is designed to give fighter squadrons a final evaluation before deployments that could see them in real air-to-air engagements.
Why the Air Force puts its fighter squadrons through the exhaustive Weapons System Evaluation Program prior to deploying into harm's way.