A Monday test pairing a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) with an Aegis Combat System armed with a Raytheon Standard Missile-6 is the latest step in expanding how the Navy and Marine Corps will share data on future battlefields. Using targeting information transmitted from the Marine Corps F-35B, the Navy’s Aegis test site at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico launched an SM-6 anti-air missile and struck a Beechcraft MQM-107 target representing an adversarial fighter. “The way I’d describe it was a center of mass hit,” said Dana Potts with Lockheed Martin said in a … Continue reading Video: Successful F-35, SM-6 Live Fire Test Points to Expansion in Networked Naval Warfare