First drop of a test weapon shape from F-35

F-35 (BF-3). a short-take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) B-model test aircraft flying out of Patuxent River Naval Air Station, has been used to drop the first inert weapon's test shape--similar to a 1000-pound JDAM. Similar, because you don't drop $18,000 JDAM kits into the drink for a first clearance test.

United States Marketing Corps press release here. Of course, for the faithful, this is a big achievement after almost 11 years of development (not counting the JSF effort before the 2001 contract).