WASHINGTON – US Air Force makes a key achievement over Stealth F 35 fighterjets integration with the missile defence system.
The US Missile Defense Agency and the Air Force successfully connected anF-35 fighter jet with a U-2 spy plane through the multi-domain groundstation, Lockheed Martin announced in a press release on Monday.
“During the demonstration, called Project Riot, an F-35 detected along-range missile launch with its onboard sensors and shared theinformation through the U-2 to the air defence commander on the ground,enabling the commander to quickly make the decision to target the threat,”the release said.
Lockheed characterised the test as a “ground-breaking” demonstration of”multi-domain operations and the secure distribution of sensitiveinformation across multiple platforms.”
This test showed the “next-level” of connectivity intended to reduce thedata-to-decision timeline from minutes to seconds, according to the release.