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 ...

The latest version of a Boeing-made bomb is proving accurate against moving targets in early testing, but one component has been changed to improve its reliability. The US Navy has dropped 18 joint ...

For the second time in as many weeks, Boeing has made an announcement related, at least in part, to the ongoing development of a powered derivative of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) precision ...

SUPERSONIC MUNITIONS: During a recent test at the High-Speed Test Track at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., researchers from Boeing Phantom Works and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) used a ...

Boeing successfully tested the 500-pound Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) against a moving target for the first time, Boeing said May 24. In the test, conducted at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., ...

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 ...

Russia’s air defenses intercepted for the first time a US-made JDAM precision-guided bomb fired by Ukraine, defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Wednesday. He said: “During the last ...

Boeing has completed the first round of tests of the latest variant of its precision bomb kit, the Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER). Developed in partnership with the Australian ...

Boeing and the US Air Force today said they have tested new technology that for the first time will let military aircraft launch bombs from aircraft moving at supersonic speeds. Active flow control is ...

In an operational first, the Air Force has armed the MQ-9 Reaper with the GPS-guided GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM, bomb. Airmen from the 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing at ...

On Aug. 9, an Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon dropped a 500-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) in a designated area of Fort McCoy’s impact area on North Post for the first time in post history ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the day in 1998 when Boeing delivered the first production model of the satellite-guided Joint Direct Attack Munition to the U.S. Air Force. JDAM ("j-dam") was ...