ABOUT
JASSM
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http://www.military.cz/usa/air/in_service/weapons/ag_missiles/agm_158/agm158_en.htm
Genesis of JASSM
JASSM is a precision cruise missile designed for launch from outside area defenses to kill hard, medium-hardened, soft, and area type targets. . . .The weapon is required to attack both fixed and relocatable targets at ranges beyond enemy air defenses. After launch, it will be able to fly autonomously over a low-level, circuitous route to the area of a target, where an autonomous terminal guidance system will guide the missile in for a direct hit. The key performance parameters for the system are Missile Mission Effectiveness, range, and carrier operability.
Background of JASSM, Photos of JASSM and lots of PC wallpaper pics of military aircraft if you go to the HOME page from this link.
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0494/9404050.htm
Radar Evading Paint for Missiles
Washington Report – April/May 1994. — A pending request for a military technology transfer of radar-evading paint from a U.S. to an Israeli manufacturer would turn an Israeli pilotless aircraft into a deadly missile that could evade "all radars the U.S. has sold" to the Middle East, according to the U.S. inventor. The quantity of the stealth aircraft coating, called Signaflux, ordered by Israel also raises questions about Israeli intentions.
The coating has been ordered by Israel Military Industries for its pilotless "Delilah," which is capable of delivering a 1,000-lb. warhead to targets within 240 miles of the point of launch, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Today's upgraded version of the Delilah has an offensive capability. Resembling a U.S. Air Force AGM-86 Air-Launched "Cruise" Missile in both configuration and capability, the ramjet-powered Delilah measures nine feet long, travels at nearly the speed of sound and can be launched from the ground, aircraft or ships.
The Israeli manufacturer of Delilah is hoping to give it the ability to fly undetected to its targets by painting the unmanned aircraft with Signaflux. This, said one Air Force colonel, "would make the Delilah a sort of poor man's stealth missile."
http://www.house.gov/everett/news/9april98.htm
JASSM contract awarded to Lockheed Martin
WASHINGTON -- A newly-awarded defense contract to develop and build an advanced cruise missile system utilizing stealth technology will ultimately bring as many as 50 new jobs to Lockheed Martin in Pike County, Alabama, Congressman Terry Everett announced Thursday.
"The $2 billion contract, which was awarded by the Pentagon Thursday to Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems of Orlando, will begin the process of development and construction of some 2,400 high-tech precision strike missiles at Lockheed Martin's facilities in California and Florida. Final missile assembly will take place at Lockheed Martin's plant in Pike County, Alabama," said Everett, a member of the House National Security Committee.
"The JASSM will combine stealth technology, precise guidance, and lethal target penetration technology to create a missile that can destroy advanced air defense systems and more sophisticated hardened and mobile enemy targets. This weapons system represents the cutting edge in America's ability to defend itself in the next century and it means that Alabama workers will play a significant role in a new stealth defense program," Everett noted.
Development of the JASSM is expected to begin immediately with initial prototype testing in 2000 and low-rate production slated by the middle of the year 2000. The JASSM will be produced for the U.S. Air Force.
http://www.mbda.net/escalp0006.html
Similar Missiles in Other Countries
Now ordered by 4 European countries (France, UK, Italy and Greece) and UAE (Black Shaheen), STORM SHADOW / SCALP EG is a long range, conventionally armed, cruise missile, optimized for use in pre-planned attacks against heavily defended, hardened and high value fixed targets whose positions are accurately known before the mission. The STORM SHADOW / SCALP EG is a stealth missile and is fully independent after firing. The only difference between the SCALP EG and STORM SHADOW is in the peripherals around the missile itself.
[NOTE: The United Arab Emirates ordered the “Black Shaheen,”(named after a peregrine falcon) which is the export version of the Storm Shadow.]
No link here, but a note of interest: A website that’s now gone, compared the sentence of convicted spy Jonathon Pollard to the sentences given to other spies. From that defunct site: “American-born Abdelkader Helmy was sentenced to 46 months for selling Stealth missile secrets to Egypt........”
http://www.desertsecrets.com/airplanes.html
Patent application drawings of JASSM
http://www.oocities.org/CapitolHill/Lobby/4907/Weaponry.htm
Stealthy propulsion systems
Type: S-225 LRAAM.
Originally based on the Skyflash, the new missile has neither mid-body controls or tail fins, but uses tail control surfaces instead. The smoky solid rocket propellant was replaced with a new smokeless motor which lets the missile alternately propel itself then coast without power, in order to boost range and improve stealth. The motor reserves enough power to deliver an optimal terminal velocity with which to attack the target. For the long range role, the missile was given a mid-course guidance data link, enabling range to be increased to around 100 km.
It is better to engage at long distance than to enter a dogfight, at the risk of giving away your position. The stealthy attributes of the missile, however, go a long way in keeping your location hidden. This weapon may also be used at a similar range to AMRAAM, although the poor availability of the weapon would make AMRAAM the preferred choice.
http://www.af.mil/news/Jan2001/n20010131_0138.shtml
Successful test flight of JASSM (Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile) January 1, 2001
The JASSM is a 2,250-pound cruise missile which carries a 1,000-pound-class duel-purpose warhead. The warhead is capable of destroying soft and distributed surface targets or deeply buried, hardened structures. During the recent flight, the cruise missile's GPS navigation system functioned flawlessly, recognizing three navigation way-points and completed necessary maneuvers to keep it on the pre-programmed mission attack plan. As the JASSM approached its target, it performed a pitch-over maneuver and dived on the target at a 70-degree impact angle. The state-of-the-art infrared imaging seeker recognized the target scene and guided the weapon to a hit.
http://www.arnold.af.mil/aedc/highmach/stories/JASSM.html
“LOW OBSERVABLE....CRUISE MISSILE”
"The JASSM can be described as a low-observable, highly survivable, subsonic cruise missile with precise attack capabilities," Arterbury said. "JASSM certification will allow the B-2 Spirit to better supplement aircraft such as the B-52 and B-1."
A multi-role bomber with conventional and nuclear munitions delivery capability, the B-2 is "stealthy" due to a combination of infrared, acoustic, electromagnetic, visual and radar signatures which make it difficult for sophisticated defensive systems to detect, track and engage the aircraft.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hillint/message/71
RECENT GAO REPORTS – The cost of JASSM
Results in Brief
Since the program’s inception, the development schedule has lengthened from 56 months to 78 months, and total program costs have increased from $1.6 billion to $2.1 billion. In the most recent extension, approved in 1 (SIC) Initial estimates placed development costs at $675 million and procurement costs between $960 million and $1.68 billion because the development contractor had not been selected. We used the lower procurement cost because it was closer to the winning contractor's proposal. In the most recent program estimate, development costs were $892 million and production costs $1.21 billion.
November 1999, the Air Force added 10 months to the missiles development schedule and increased estimated program costs by about $90.1 million. Factors leading to the schedule delay varied and included prime and subcontractor changes to missile design to (1) correct problems discovered during testing, (2) decrease production costs, or (3) improve performance. Program officials stated that contractors underestimated the time and personnel required to design the missile and prepare for production.
http://www.area51researchcenter.com/JASSM.html
Lockheed Martin's JASSM Destroys Hardened Target
ORLANDO, Fla. (May 31, 2001) - Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) again successfully demonstrated end-to-end performance by destroying a concrete bunker in a flight test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico today.
The missile was launched from a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber. In this test, the B-52 flew at Mach 0.85 at an altitude of 30,000 ft. mean sea level above the New Mexico desert. After weapon release, it deployed its wings and tail and autonomously navigated and guided to the pre-mission planned, hardened bunker target. The missile flew for 23 minutes, navigated through 10 waypoints and traveled approximately 195 miles.
To accurately strike and destroy the target, JASSM used its integrated inertial guidance unit/global positioning system (GPS) to navigate a preplanned route to the target area. Once in the target area, JASSM used its imaging infrared seeker and on-board, real-time automatic target correlator algorithms to precisely locate and guide the missile to the desired target aimpoint. The live warhead penetrated the concrete roof of the bunker and detonated in the enclosed facility, destroying the target.
http://www.technodynamic.com/todd/military2.html
“PHANTOM WORKS” - THE R&D ARM OF BOEING
JASSM - The Boeing low-cost, low-risk JASSM concept, developed in Phantom Works, advanced research and development. The organization represents an innovative combination of existing subsystems and mature technologies developed by the company. It also offers growth potential for different warheads and seekers, and for extended range. JASSM's midcourse guidance is provided by a Global Positioning System (GPS)-aided inertial navigation system (INS) protected by a new high, anti-jam GPS null steering antenna system. In the terminal phase, JASSM is guided by an imaging infrared seeker and a general pattern match-autonomous target recognition system that provides aimpoint detection, tracking and strike. JASSM is a quiet, autonomous, stealth cruise missile capable of delivering ordinance to the highest secured targets in the world. A downselect to one contractor for the engineering and manufacturing development and full-rate production phases is scheduled for July 1998. Low-rate initial production decision for JASSM is in the year 2000, with full-scale production scheduled to run from 2002 to 2009. Total missile production for the U.S. Air Force is expected to be 2,400 missiles. The total program is valued at approximately $3 billion.
is still under construction.