Weapons clearance work on the plane continues. The software has attracted a lot of attention, but software delays are really just an unavoidable fact of life when writing millions of lines of code. The picture at the link below is interesting to me. It seems to show that some work is needed on the amount of charge being placed in the squibs that are firing the ejectors. A pitch attitude like that only milliseconds after ejection says that the weapon may have a lower-than-desired maximum release speed. Reason? At high Q, that kind of pitch will generate enough lift to "fly" the bomb back into the plane, or at the very least, make computed ballistics a challenge.
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/194045/f-35-launches-joint-standoff-weapon#.VwL0vDGJXEY
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