[KarlInOhio]

"a Raptor dropped a 1,000-pound JDAM (guided bomb) from 50,000 feet (passenger jets generally fly at around 35,000 feet) while cruising at Mach 1.5 (around 1,000 miles per hour), striking a moving target 24 miles away."

Huh? JDAMs are GPS guided bombs. You enter in the location you want to hit and it is guided there. You can't hit a moving target (like with a laser guided bomb) unless you get lucky enough to have it driving over the target location at exactly the right time or you find some way of constantly updating the target location on the bomb after it has been let loose.

[SJSAMPLE]

We now have laser-guided JDAMS.
New in 2008, IIRC.

[Danae]

Author is an idiot or spreading misinformation.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Muth is mistaken. When Lockheed Martin and the Air Force announced the results of this test the target was indeed stationary. If he responds to my email to him about where he got the information that the target was moving, I'll provide his explanation.

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2006/F22RAPTORSCORESDIRECTHITINTESTINGOF.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT07HdwFpDU

[2CAVTrooper]

“Huh? JDAMs are GPS guided bombs.”

Yep, they’re called the GBU-54

They come with an optional laser seeker package to give the ability to strike a wider array of targets to include moving ones.

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q1/nr_050203t.html

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q2/nr_050524n.html

http://defense-update.com/newscast/0808/270808laserguidedjdamdebutsiniraq.html