Nov 012012
A photo from the recent Air Force Association Technology Expo 2012 shows a large display model of the F-35 with weapons bays loaded with Lockheed-Martin “Cuda” air-to-air missiles:
A Lockheed Martin model shows how its “’Cuda” concept for a small AMRAAM-class radar guided dogfight missile could triple the air-to-air internal loadout on an F-35. The missile is about the size of a Small Diameter Bomb and fits on an SDB-style rack.
I’ve not seen anything on this missile before (at least not under the name “Cuda”). So off to Google I went… and came away equally unenlightened. About the only relevant thing I could find was that Lock-Mart took out a trademark on “CUDA” for a guided missile in 2011.