The single best option to fully test a military aircraft’s armament system would be to launch or drop munitions from the station in question, and wouldn’t this be fun for our service members involved! Unfortunately for all, this reality cannot exist for many reasons, so aircraft armament technicians are left with the task of functionally testing these interfaces. However, when the interfaces are tested, most often the process of expending the munitions is far from accurately simulated. In fact, the test sets armament maintainers utilize simply report the presence of continuity or stay voltage, omitting critical test data.
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