David Axe reports on the USAF's new air-to-air missile, the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM).
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The AIM-260 JATM is speculated to be central to the US Air Force’s controversial plan to cut the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter fleet by 33 airframes next year Joe Campion
The US Air Force’s (USAF) new air-to-air missile is mostly a secret. We don’t know what it looks like, what its capabilities are or how close it is to entering service. But the AIM-260 JATM, as little as we know about it, is central to the Air Force’s controversial plan to cut the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter fleet by 33 airframes next year.