Posted on 02/10/2011 10:43:58 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
KF-16 Fighter Jets Fitted with Precision-Guided Missiles
South Korea's KF-16 fighter jets will be equipped with state-of-the-art GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition precision-guided missiles. The JDAMs are fitted with GPS-aided inertial navigation system (INS) and wing kits to boost their accuracy and are capable of precision attacks at night and during harsh weather conditions.
A South Korean KF-16 fighter jet test-fires a GBU-31 JDAM precision-guided missile.
/Courtesy of the Air Force
At present, only 40 F-15K fighter jets are fitted with the missiles, but now all about 130 KF-16s will have them, making them more capable of countering North Korea's 170 mm howitzers and 240 mm multiple launch rocket systems that have been deployed on the border.
The Air Force said it developed software that connects the KF-16s with JDAM missiles and successfully carried out three tests. Pilot training was completed at the end of January. The GBU-31 JDAM missiles cost less than laser-guided missiles or other precision-guided munitions and can hit a target 9.6 m in diameter 27 km away in about 50 percent of cases.
englishnews@chosun.com / Feb. 10, 2011 12:07 KST
When did JDAM become a ‘missile’? I thought it was a gravity bomb with active seeker/guidance vanes.
heh.
You don’t expect reporters to be that precise do you?
: an object (as a weapon) thrown or projected usually so as to strike something at a distance (stones, artillery shells, bullets, and rockets are missiles)
It's a stretch, I know...
lol!!
Very good!
lol! Nice.
maybe an artifact of translation from Korean?
The word “missile” isn’t technically wrong. If you pick up a stick and throw it, it is a “missile”. In military-speak though there is a difference between a bomb and a missile.
I watch a lot of Korean shows online and some of the translations are horrible. lol.
I have seen some modern bombs with a narrow tube shaped rocket motor attached to them. Perhaps that sort of thing was being used.
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