Boeing To Build Gliding Stand-Off Version Of JDAM

CANBERRA – Boeing aims to begin deliveries of kits to create gliding JDAM guided bombs starting in 2015, offering a cheap stand-off weapon that probably will be able to hit targets about 110 km (60 nm) away using a wing developed in Australia. The weapon, called JDAM-ER, combines a new folding-wing...

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