The Boeing Company has received two contracts totaling $217.1 million from the U.S. Defense Department for continued production of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits and small diameter ...

This is meant to reduce casualties to nearby civilians, but it's still a bigger bang than the low-explosive 500 pound JDAM. Moreover, the low-explosive JDAM costs about half as much as the SDB. The ...

Boeing's Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) programme is set to reap the benefits of the company's recent victory in the small diameter bomb (SDB) competition during the next round of annual ...

Credit: A Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier supporting the counter-ISIL air campaign is loaded with six 500-lb. Boeing GBU-54 Laser Joint Direct Attack Munitions: U.S. Navy DESTIN, Florida—The head of Boeing ...

The Royal Australian Air Force has demonstrated a wing kit for the Boeing joint direct attack munition (JDAM) that tripled the effective range of the weapon when launched from an F/A-18 Hornet. The ...

Joint Strike Fighter engineers will have to make adjustments to the weapons bay of the Marine Corps variant of the F-35 so the aircraft can carry a pin point glide bomb by 2022, JSF program officials ...

An up-close look at the new "small diameter bomb." EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Florida, Feb. 16, 2008 — -- Strapped into the back seat of an F-16 fighter jet as it tore through the sky at more than 700 ...

March 20, 2007 Two Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) weapons, each equipped with an Australian-designed and -built modular wing kit, have been successfully released from a Royal Australian Air Force ...

CONTINUED MUNITIONS: The U.S. Defense Department has awarded Boeing two contracts totaling $217.1 million for continued production of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits and Small Diameter ...

January 17, 2008: JDAM (GPS satellite guided bombs) were developed in the 1990s, shortly after the GPS network went live. These weapons entered service in time for the 1999 Kosovo campaign, and have ...