The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions (PGMs). JDAM-equipped bombs are guided by an integrated inertial guidance system coupled to a Global Positioning System (GPS

2020年2月18日 · Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) (Air Force) – $21,000; Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) (Navy) – $22,208 . These are the unit prices for orders in the base budget. The Air Force is also looking to purchase a much smaller number of JDAM kits through the supplemental Overseas Contingency Operations budget at an average unit cost of ...

2023年10月25日 · In 2020, the War Zone broke out costs for a number of missiles, rockets and bombs, putting the figure for JDAM kits for the U. S Air Force and Navy at $21,000 and $22,208 per unit respectively.

2018年8月29日 · Even with the price of the bomb itself included, a JDAM guidance system costs barely $30,000, whereas the value of the target it destroys with pinpoint accuracy may be over a hundred times that...

2011年5月6日 · For example, a the cost of a basic JDAM kit as paid by the Pentagon was about $40,000 ten years ago. After producing almost quarter of a million weapon, Boeing could drop the cost to around $25,000, as reflected in recent orders.

The cost of the JDAM kit is $35,000 for the GBU-38 bomb and $70,000 for the GBU-31. More than 250 thousand sets have been produced since 1998. The Diamondback kit, developed by Alenia Marconi Systems, is an addition to the JDAM designed to increase bomb range.

The Joint Direct Attack Munition designated GBU-31 is a 2,000-pound class munition guided by an $18,000 tail kit. JDAM is a family of guided air-to-surface weapons that is comprised of the...

Generally, JD500-JDAM Tail Kit Unit prices may vary outside the allowable year to year inflation based on the quantities and combinations of variants being procured each year. There are four tail kit variants that are procured and unit costs are derived …

2019年10月16日 · The first batch of JDAMs cost around $18,000 each, 3 half of the original estimate, while the total price in 2019 was around $20,000 for each of the 210 tail kits Boeing produces every day. The 400,000th kit was delivered in May 2019, and each, when mated to a bomb fitted with aerodynamic strakes on the nose or midsection, will turn it into a ...

JDAM is a guided air-to-surface weapon that uses either the 2,000-pound BLU-109/MK 84, the 1,000-pound BLU-110/MK 83 or the 500-pound BLU-111/MK 82 warhead as the payload. JDAM enables employment of accurate air-to-surface weapons against high priority fixed and relocatable targets from fighter and bomber aircraft.