JASSM - The Air Force's Next Generation Cruise Missile

Posted on: Mar. 12th, 2006 || Source: blackanthem.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

Since the late 1970s the Department of Defense has tried and failed numerous times to give the warfighter an affordable standoff cruise missile capable of taking out the enemy's air defenses early on in a conflict.

Fast forward to 2006 and that warfighter need has finally been met by the Air Force's next generation cruise missile - the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile.

At 14 feet long and 2,250 pounds, JASSM is an autonomous, conventional munition with a standoff range of more than 200 nautical miles. It is designed to defeat heavily defended, high-priority enemy targets deep behind enemy lines.

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