Lockheed Martin AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM)

quellish said:
Huh? The weapon is already in service.
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Achieving IOC (assuming it has) doesn't preclude it from as still being in some stage of Operational Test and Evaluation and awaiting a full-rate production decision.

Straight from the horse's mouth:

JATM is still undergoing operational testing and has not reached a full-rate production decision, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet said today during Morgan Stanley’s Laguna Conference .
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https://insidedefense.com/daily-new...-progress-still-awaiting-full-rate-production

I would consider Inside Defense to be a much better source than TWZ. That's why it costs real money. Thousands of dollars per year is my recollection.
 
TomS said:
Achieving IOC (assuming it has) doesn't preclude it from as still being in some stage of Operational Test and Evaluation and awaiting a full-rate production decision.

Straight from the horse's mouth:



https://insidedefense.com/daily-new...-progress-still-awaiting-full-rate-production

I would consider Inside Defense to be a much better source than TWZ. That's why it costs real money. Thousands of dollars per year is my recollection.
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The weapon has been in limited operational service for about a year. Operational F-22 crews have been trained on it and their units have a small number of the weapons.
 
quellish said:
The weapon has been in limited operational service for about a year. Operational F-22 crews have been trained on it and their units have a small number of the weapons.
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Okay. That doesn't mean it's completed operational testing.
 
We don't know how long the testing will take to complete for the AIM-260, and when it will be released to operational squadrons.
 
FighterJock said:
We don't know how long the testing will take to complete for the AIM-260, and when it will be released to operational squadrons.
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A weapon system can become operational, and even widely used, monthly or even years before it completes its IOT&E and achieves Milestone C. We've used such weapons in the Iran conflict itself. And of course the big one there is the F-35 A/B/C which achieved IOC, and was even used in operational settings and combat by the US and the IDF prior to formal IOT&E completion and M-C approval.
 
Why it takes so long to integrate missiles into aircrafts? Like, in this case it is all "in house built", the missile is american and the aircraft is also american, they have access to the codes of both parts and everything, the form factor is very similar....... if someone knows
 

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