Munitions airmen have set a new record in building JDAM bombs.
Taken at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, on Dec. 17, 2015, the following interesting pictures show a dozen 2,000-pound GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) built by airmen from the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron’s Munitions Flight.
Noteworthy, a team of nearly 60 Munitions airmen set a record, building almost 4,000 bombs since July 2015, surpassing the previous one by more than 1,600.
As we have already explained, the JDAM’s GPS/INS guidance kit integrates a general purpose gravity bomb improving the weapon accuracy and making this kind of munitions suitable for those targets where adverse weather may affect laser guidance.
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JDAMs are extensively used in Operation Inherent Resolve, the air campaign conducted against the Islamic State: unlike the Russian Air Force aircraft, than mainly use OFAB-250 iron bombs, the U.S. Air Force only employs PGMs (Precision Guided Munitions) in Syria.
Image credit: Tech. Sgt. James Hodgman / U.S. Air Force
