Indonesian Air Force F-16 pilots successfully test locally made bomb

Air Force armourers load BNT-250 live bombs onto an F-16 AM from the 3rd Air Squadron at the Iswahjudi Air Force Base in Maospati, Magetan regency, East Java, on Nov. 18, 2025. The NATO-standard bomb is locally made by private arms maker PT Sari Bahari in cooperation with state-owned explosives maker PT Dahana. - Courtesy of PT Sari Bahari via The Jakarta Post/ANN

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.