Joint Direct Attack Munition (redirect from JDAM)
Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions (PGMs). JDAM-equipped bombs...
75 KB (6,567 words) - 13:47, 14 August 2024
GBU-10/GBU-24/GBU-27 Paveway laser-guided bombs, GBU-15 electro-optical bomb, GBU-31 JDAM and Quickstrike sea mines. The HGK is a Turkish guidance kit used to convert...
12 KB (988 words) - 02:04, 18 August 2024
range extension kit, similar to the American Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). The guidance system and gliding function of the UMPK kit can provide ordinary...
16 KB (1,530 words) - 11:47, 1 September 2024
be dropped in one mission with PGMs. Although not as popular as the newer JDAM and JSOW weapons, or even the older laser-guided bomb systems, weapons like...
15 KB (1,856 words) - 10:27, 17 August 2024
be dropped in one mission with PGMs. Although not as popular as the newer JDAM and JSOW weapons, or even the older laser-guided bomb systems, weapons like...
57 KB (6,414 words) - 06:35, 20 August 2024
laser-guided bombs, as well as the GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and AGM-130 air-to-surface missile. The BLU-118 is reportedly a thermobaric...
8 KB (571 words) - 22:24, 25 July 2024
precision-guided weapons, including the GBU-16 Paveway laser-guided bombs, the GBU-32 JDAM and Quickstrike sea mines. The Mk 83 is also used as the warhead in a variety...
5 KB (420 words) - 17:48, 23 April 2024
will generalize the system beyond the AGM-158 missile family to include JDAM bombs, sea mines, drones, and other missile systems as well as integrating...
23 KB (2,385 words) - 21:19, 28 August 2024
Mk82 is the warhead for the GBU-12 laser-guided bombs and for the GBU-38 JDAM. Currently only the General Dynamics plant in Garland, Texas and Nitro-Chem...
16 KB (1,429 words) - 11:20, 11 August 2024
GBU-38 JDAM, 277 kg bomb with a JDAM guidance system (GPS/INS), MK-82 bomb body and FBM21 fuse. GBU-54 Laser-JDAM, 277 kg bomb made of the L-JDAM guidance...
53 KB (2,193 words) - 09:04, 27 August 2024
can penetrate 1 meter reinforced concrete. Was approved by Boeing for the JDAM guidance kit. During Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli Air Force realized...
1 KB (126 words) - 22:46, 10 November 2023
Paveway III (Mk 84) laser-guided GBU-38 JDAM (Mk 82) INS/GPS guided GBU-32 JDAM (Mk 83) INS/GPS guided GBU-31 JDAM (Mk 84) INS/GPS guided GBU-X - a guided...
24 KB (2,814 words) - 02:28, 30 August 2024
Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) by Russian forces. The paper notes that the Russian R-330Zh Zhitel impacted GPS signals that JDAMs rely on. Some GPS signals...
12 KB (1,184 words) - 12:57, 5 December 2023
impact point General-purpose bomb Guided bomb Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Laydown delivery "Evaluation of a Ballute Retarder System for the Mk 82...
3 KB (366 words) - 09:45, 19 August 2024
equivalent to the United States Air Force (USAF) Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) family of Global Positioning System (GPS) guided weapons. It is believed...
4 KB (186 words) - 17:51, 21 May 2023
GBU-28 GBU-31, GB-32, GB-38 JDAM GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb GBU-44/B Viper Strike GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II GBU-54 Laser JDAM CBU-87 Combined Effects...
35 KB (3,437 words) - 21:34, 24 August 2024
system and is the Russian equivalent of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) weapons family. It was first used during the Russian military intervention...
6 KB (230 words) - 21:32, 9 April 2024
(WCMD) CBUs GBU-31 JDAM GPS guided bombs (Mk-84 GP or BLU-109 warhead) GBU-38 JDAM GPS guided bombs (Mk-82 GP warhead) GBU-38 JDAM (using rotary launcher...
125 KB (12,895 words) - 11:13, 30 August 2024
missiles are the Maverick, SLAM-ER and JSOW. Smart bombs include the GPS-guided JDAM and the laser-guided Paveway series. Unguided munitions such as dumb bombs...
130 KB (12,678 words) - 00:57, 30 August 2024
2011, the UK's RAF have also ordered the GBU-27 for use in Libya. Paveway JDAM BLU-109 Notes "Guided Bomb Unit-24 (GBU-24) Paveway III". Archived from the...
7 KB (520 words) - 09:20, 9 May 2024
L3 subsidiary KDI Precision Products participated in the sale of 11,500 JDAM bomb fuses to Israel, part of a $647 million contract deal. These were among...
31 KB (2,392 words) - 06:40, 11 July 2024
insurgents in Kunar Province; An American F-15E Strike Eagle dropping 2000 pound JDAMs on a cave in eastern Afghanistan; an Afghan soldier surveying atop a Humvee;...
313 KB (29,370 words) - 20:37, 29 August 2024
thermonuclear weapons, such as up to eighty 500-pound class (230 kg) Mk 82 JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear bombs. The...
120 KB (12,255 words) - 01:57, 1 September 2024
BLU-109 penetration bombs, or, after 2006, two Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) GPS/INS guided stand-off bombs. The F-117 has a radar cross-section (RCS)...
90 KB (9,440 words) - 02:26, 31 August 2024
responded to an urgent CAS request from the force and dropped two 500lb JDAMs on the Ansar al-Islam machine gun nests and strafed the positions with 20 mm...
294 KB (33,065 words) - 17:31, 29 August 2024
(1970s) LS PGB, a Chinese satellite-guided munition similar to American JDAM, only with more range, as it is a glide bomb. The Headingley and Hyde Park...
668 bytes (119 words) - 01:39, 11 June 2024
GBU-28 GBU-31, GB-32, GB-38 JDAM GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb GBU-44/B Viper Strike GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II GBU-54 Laser JDAM CBU-87 Combined Effects...
4 KB (457 words) - 16:55, 15 May 2024
missiles. Savieliev flew another combat mission in the evening, this time using JDAM guided bombs. However, in the area of Pokrovsk (Donetsk Oblast), his plane...
7 KB (496 words) - 11:02, 30 August 2024
tank being moved across the flight deck of an aircraft carrier Three GBU-31 JDAM precision guided bombs on a triple-ejector rack, under the wing of a B-52...
3 KB (256 words) - 06:28, 28 February 2024
GBU-28 GBU-31, GB-32, GB-38 JDAM GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb GBU-44/B Viper Strike GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II GBU-54 Laser JDAM CBU-87 Combined Effects...
172 KB (15,737 words) - 23:22, 31 August 2024