[StJacques]

"The JDAM can be re-targeted, but so can a cruise missile. The 1k lbs is easily beaten by a missile, but most individual targets can be handled by a drone sized weapon. I love the Raptor, I'm just pointing out tax savings and pilot safety issues in war planning. Using a Raptor to deliver munitions from 50k ft at Mach 1.5 is kinda mute."

All true, but the Tomahawk cruise missile is still subsonic, we now have evidence that the JDAM can be launched from supersonic speeds. And there is more. A piloted aircraft can open up a wider range of retargeting options than are possible with the cruise missile -- enhanced by the fact that the pilot of an F-22 can do his own reconnaisance, the JDAM also comes in "bunker buster" configuration which requires a more vertical drop than the cruise missile can accomplish effectively -- given that it comes in at such low altitude, and on the issue of tax savings, I'm fairly sure that a JDAM is much cheaper than a cruise missile.

[lepton]

I'm fairly sure that a JDAM is much cheaper than a cruise missile.

The price of the dumb bomb, plus $21,000. It's a conversion kit.