An US Navy (USN) F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Three (VX-23) releases MK-83 1000-pound bombs during a series of Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) adjacent stores release tests over the Atlantic Test Range. Tests are designed to evaluate the safe separation of various weapons when released adjacent to the ATFLIR system on the F/A-18C/D strike-fighter aircraft
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Naval Air Station Patuxent River
State: Maryland (MD)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Major Command Shown: VX-23
Scene Camera Operator: Vernon Pugh, CIV
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
02/08/2002
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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