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Zitat:F-35 weapons certification on track for this year
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is expected to complete full weapons certification this year after conducting several significant milestones since September 2014, the Pentagon said in a 15 January statement.
"The weapons development programme continues to track forward on the plan laid out by the Technical Baseline Review approved in 2010," said Lieutenant General Chris Bogdan, the Pentagon's programme executive officer for F-35. The certification is expected to be completed within months, according to a spokeswoman for the programme.
The US Marine Corps (USMC) is slated to be the first service to declare their F-35, the jump-jet variant of the aircraft, deployable......