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AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon

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The AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, known as JSOW, is an unpowered precision guided glide bomb developed jointly for the United States Navy and Air Force to let strike aircraft engage defended targets from outside the range of enemy air defenses. Originally developed by Texas Instruments and later produced by Raytheon after it acquired the program in 1997, the weapon uses GPS and inertial navigation to glide to its target and can dispense submunitions in a linear pattern. It entered operational service in January 1999 with the United States Navy and Marine Corps and has since been exported to more than a dozen countries including Australia, Canada, Finland, Greece, Poland, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Weapon Class
Glide bomb 1
Introduced Year
1999 1
Classification
Service Status
In Service 1
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Guided Missile 1
Connections

Operated By

United States Armed Forces, Armed Forces and Units
Source Wikipedia: AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon

Used In

Iraq War, Wars
Source Wikipedia: AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon
War in Afghanistan (2001-2021), Wars
Source Wikipedia: AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon
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Manufactured By

Raytheon

Also in Business Atlas: the manufacturer of this subject.

Source Wikidata: AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon
Sources
1. Wikipedia: AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon
  • Introductory section
    The AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) is a glide bomb
  • Development section
    JSOW entered operational service in January 1999
  • Article text
    The first combat deployment of the JSOW occurred over southern Iraq on December 17, 1998, when launched by a single F/A-18C from the "Checkerboards" of VMFA-312, Carrier Air Wing Three embarked aboard USS Enterprise during Operation Desert Fox.
  • Weapon class classified from the entity's own sourced description text.
  • Correction: an unpowered precision-guided glide bomb, matches the guided-munition category, not an aircraft.
  • Infobox: service
    December 1998 - present
  • Used In: War in Afghanistan (2001-2021), Infobox: wars
    Operation Desert Fox Operation Southern Watch NATO bombing of Yugoslavia War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) Iraq War Operation Rough Rider
  • Used In: Iraq War, Infobox: wars
    Operation Desert Fox Operation Southern Watch NATO bombing of Yugoslavia War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) Iraq War Operation Rough Rider
  • Operated By: United States Armed Forces, Infobox: used_by
    United States Armed Forces Republic of China Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force Finnish Air Force Polish Air Force Hellenic Air Force Royal Australian Air Force Royal Moroccan Air Force Turkish Air Force Republic of Singapore Air Force
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Wikidata: AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon
Wikidata Q210751, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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