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Team Eglin answered the warfighter’s call to rapidly test, integrate and deploy a high precision, low collateral weapon for immediate use in theater – in just six months.
F-16 pilots from the 96th Test Wing and the Arizona National Guard Air Reserve Test Center prepare to perform a final round of shots testing Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II integrated M151 warheads over the Eglin Air Force Base range in July. The system turns existing Hydra 70 unguided rockets into precision guided munitions through the addition of a laser guidance kit.
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