JAKARTA: The Air Force has successfully tested the domestically produced BNT-250 bomb, a NATO-standard live bomb weighing 250 kilograms, thus reducing its reliance on Mk. 82 bombs, imported from the United States.
Pilots from the 3rd Air Squadron at Iswahjudi Air Force Base (AFB) in Magetan, East Java, flew two F-16 AM jet fighters in the test at Pandanwangi Air Weapons Range in Lumajang, East Java, carrying a total of 12 BNT-250 bombs on Nov. 18.
Test pilots Lt. Col. Anwar “Weasel” Sovie flew aircraft TS-1610 and Maj. Windi “Lion” Darmawan flew the TS-1612. Each F-16 carried six BNT-250 bombs and they conducted a total of eight bombing rounds by dropping one b
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