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A recent test at the US Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center at Arnold AFB, Tennessee, will help reduce the risk of integrating new small munitions on the next generation of combat aircraft. The center tested a 15th-scale model of the Low Cost Autonomous Attack System on a sting in the center’s four-foot transonic wind tunnel. The sting positioned the LOCAAS to simulate separation from an F-111 aircraft during wind tunnel testing. During the test, engineers examined the release of small munitions from aircraft with supersonic capability and with internal weapon bays. The data will be used to reduce risk integrating small munitions into such aircraft as the F/A-22 Raptor, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and uninhabited combat air vehicles |
