AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon C Archives

With JSOW C in its internal weapons bay the Navy s F-35C can now eliminate the toughest ground targets from significant standoff ranges Mike Jarrett vice president of Raytheon Air Warfare Systems Efforts to the integrate the AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon C JSOW C onto the F-35C is on the final stretch with Raytheon and the U S Navy completing the final developmental test at China Lake recently With JSOW C in its internal weapons bay the Navy s F-35C can now eliminate the toughest ground targets from significant standoff ranges said Mike Jarrett vice president of Raytheon Air Warfare Systems in the company news release JSOW s advanced warhead and smart fuse provide fighter pilots with plenty of flexibility against hard and soft targets plus it has many programmable effects Lockheed Martin manufacturer of the F-35 and the F-35 Joint Program Office participated in the latest test too The JSOW glide weapon is a family of low-cost air-to-ground glide missiles that uses a GPS-inertial navigation system with an imaging infrared seeker that can identify and track targets autonomously JSOW C weighs 1 000 pounds and is effective against high-value land targets at ranges greater than 70 nautical miles day or night and in adverse weather conditions The JSOW C-1 variant adds the two-way Strike Common Weapon Datalink to the combat-proven missile enabling a moving maritime target capability The C-1 is designed to provide fleet forces with the capability and flexibility to engage moving maritime targets while retaining its robust capability against stationary land targets A modification to the existing JSOW C weapon this variant adds a weapon datalink radio and modified seeker software to increase capability for the anti-surface warfare mission Photo credit Dane Wiedmann U S Navy Artwork courtesy of AircraftProfilePrints com

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AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon C

Raytheon JSOW C integration on F-35C almost completed