Air-Launched Weapons

The AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM)

Lockheed Martin is developing the JAGM for launch from the Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, the Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Navy MH-60R helicopter, and the Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter. JAGM is to replace U.S. Army and Navy inventories of Airborne TOW, Maverick, and Hellfire air-to-ground missiles. […]

Air-Launched Weapons

Roketsan Smart Micro Munition (MAM-L)

The MAM-L was first deployed in Operation Olive Branch. With warheads, varying from armor-piercing to those with thermobaric heads used according to the target type, many successful missions were carried out against possible targets such as light structures, armored land vehicles, radar antennas and weapon emplacement.

The MAM-L, which was used in destroying the Pantsir S-1, has a high pulse sensitivity with a laser seeker head. […]

Air-Launched Weapons

JASSM-ER: Long-range air-launched standoff cruise missile

JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) or JASSM-ER (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile -Extended Range) is a long-range, conventional, air-to-ground, precision standoff missile for the U.S. and allied forces. Designed to destroy high-value, well-defended, fixed and relocatable targets, JASSM’s significant standoff range keeps aircrews well out of danger from hostile air defense systems. […]