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...
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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...
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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...
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Direct Attack Munition Extended Range (JDAM-ER) and thus it was sometime nicknamed "JDAMski" or "Russian JDAM". The guidance system and gliding function...
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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...
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reportedly evaded the assassination attempt against him. Israel used US-made JDAM fit for 2,000-pound bombs in the attack. The attack has been the deadliest...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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precision-guided bunker busting bomb which uses a JDAM guidance kit. The GBU-72 is said to resemble an enlarged GBU-31/B JDAM fitted with a bunker busting BLU-109...
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series, the FT series bombs serve similar roles to the American JDAM, JDAM-ER, and Laser JDAM bombs. The Chinese development of the precision-guided bomb...
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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...
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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...
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can penetrate 1 meter reinforced concrete. Was approved by Boeing for the JDAM guidance kit. During Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli Air Force realized...
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(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...
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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...
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impact point General-purpose bomb Guided bomb Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Laydown delivery "Evaluation of a Ballute Retarder System for the Mk 82...
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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)...
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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...
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L3 subsidiary KDI Precision Products participated in the sale of 11,500 JDAM bomb fuzes to Israel, part of a $647 million contract deal. These were among...
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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 GBU-72 CBU-87 Combined...
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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 GBU-72 CBU-87 Combined...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 GBU-72 CBU-87 Combined...
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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...
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Capability project". 18 December 2020. "CF-188 Hornets on Op MOBILE drop first JDAM bombs." Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Forces.gc. Retrieved:...
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Joint-Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) 2,000lbs laser guided bomb GBU-32 United States Joint-Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) 1,000lbs precision guided bomb...
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2011. The South Korean JDAMs are equipped with wing kits, which are absent from normal JDAMs, but not from the 2,000-pound JDAM Extended Range kit, which...
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