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Lab Work for AARGM-ER Integration on F-35A Slated for Next May

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021

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Lab Work for AARGM-ER Integration on F-35A Slated for Next May

Northrop Grumman shows a fit check of the company's AARGM-ER for an F-35 weapons bay (Northrop Grumman Photo)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Northrop Grumman [NOC] is doing preliminary integration work for the company's AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range (AARGM-ER) on the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A fighter in preparation for lab integration work next year, a Northrop Grumman official said Aug. 3. "We're going to be in the lab in May of next year with a missile emulator--a rack of our circuit cards--doing software integration," Doug Larratt, Northrop Grumman's program director for AARGM-ER, said in an interview during the…

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