The Air Force does plan to work with Lockheed Martin through next spring to bring the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile program back in line, but Rebecca Christie of Dow Jones Newswires reports (via CNNMoney.com) that the service also plans to investigate some alternatives—just in case. The investigation could include a general request for information from industry.
The military’s secretive new air-to-air missile has been publicly photographed for the first time during testing. The AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile, or JATM, was photographed being carried by an F/A-18F Super Hornet on May 13, shortly after taking off from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.