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JAGM Video: Exerpts from Second Government Test
JAGM Video: Third (and final) Government Test
JAGM Video: Second Government Test
JAGM Video: First Government Test
Press Releases
Raytheon-Boeing Team Continues to Validate JAGM Single Rocket-Motor Solution
Raytheon-Boeing Team Achieves Milestone with Test of JAGM's Single Rocket Motor Solution
Raytheon-Boeing's Proven Joint Air-to-Ground Missile
Joint Air-to-Ground Missile
All-Weather, Affordable Missile Gives Warfighters Unfair Advantage
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Smoke. Dust. Fog. Sandstorms.
The enemy uses them to avoid detection when moving on the battlefield because they know that no missile to-date is capable of engaging moving targets through bad weather and battlefield obscurants.
Thankfully, that’s about to change. The Raytheon-Boeing Joint Air-to-Ground missile or JAGM, which is currently in development, leverages the state-of-the-art uncooled seeker technology from the Small Diameter Bomb II to provide the warfighter with a weapon that can hit its target whether or not there’s bad weather or other obscurants.
But capability is only part of the story. In today’s challenging fiscal environment, the warfighter doesn’t just need a weapon that works. That weapon also has to be affordable.
JAGM will replace three legacy missiles, which means instead of three global supply chains, there’s only one. That translates to lower lifecycle cost over the life of the weapon. And unlike older missiles, which use different rocket motors for fixed- and rotary-wing operations, Boeing has further reduced the logistics trail by developing a rocket motor that can perform equally well at 40 feet, or 40,000 feet.