AGM's are guided missiles (air-to-air), right? Are the hideouts now airborne?
No, theyre Air to Ground missiles.
Raytheon [Texas Instruments] for the Air Force and the Navy. The AGM-154A (Formerly Advanced Interdiction Weapon System) is intended to provide a low cost, highly lethal glide weapon with a standoff capability. JSOW family of kinematically efficient, air-to-surface glide weapons, in the 1,000-lb class, provides standoff capabilities from 15 nautical miles (low altitude launch) to 40 nautical miles (high altitude launch). The JSOW will be used against a variety of land and sea targets and will operate from ranges outside enemy point defenses. The JSOW is a launch and leave weapon that employs a tightly coupled Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS), and is capable of day/night and adverse weather operations. The JSOW uses inertial and global positioning system for midcourse navigation and imaging infra-red and datalink for terminal homing.
AGM = Air to Ground Missile.
AIM = Air Intercept Missile
The AGM-154 is the Joint Standoff Weapon, or JSOW. It's a low cost glide "bomb" with a GPS guidance system or IR seeker head. Once it gets to its target, the payload bay pops open and 145 BLU-97/B submunitions pop out. Per Wikipedia, "The bomblets have a shaped charge for armor defeating capability, a fragmenting case for materiel destruction, and a zirconium ring for incendiary effects."
It can also carry a bunker penetrator system (BROACH), but the maximum range is only about 65 miles with a high-altitude launch. The more typical low-altitude launch is only about 15 miles. It's a pretty devastating weapon, but a cruise missile it's not, and you can't put a nuke on it.
Why Pakistan is getting F-16s, Awacs, Phalanx, P3Cs, Frigates and weapon locating radars to take out all the terrorist hideouts right? Thats what we are told.