Pentagon Release First Images Of Stealth Jets Dropping Inert Nuclear Bombs

As the Pentagon builds an “F-35 friends circle” in the Asia-Pacific region,” mainly around China – new images have surfaced of stealth jets conducting mock nuclear attacks with inert bombs in the California desert.

The Aviationist reports the F-35 Joint Program Office has released a series of pictures showing various drop tests of inert nuclear bombs between 2019 and 2020. The tests were conducted with all variants of the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

“The tests were carried out: the first separation test with AF-1 flown by Jason Shulze was conducted on Jun. 27, 2019; sixth separation test with AF-1 (pilot unspecified) was carried out on Nov. 7, 2019; first separation test from AF-6 flown by Major Chris’ Beast’ Taylor was conducted on Nov. 25, 2019. Separation test #6 with AF-1 was carried out with F-35 AF-01 flown by Major Rachael “Banshee” Winiecki on Feb. 6, 2020. A more recent test with AF-6 was carried out on Apr. 2, 2020 (no additional detail can be gathered about this test),” The Aviationist said.

An F-35 dropping an inert nuclear bomb on June 27, 2019.

David Adams

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