QUICKSINK “can be employed by the majority of Air Force combat aircraft.”
What does the Navy think about calling Air Force jets to sink an enemy ship? Do they get along enough to do that?
How far away from the target can this thing be launched?
Description
The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts existing unguided bombs into precision-guided “smart” munitions. The tail section contains an inertial navigational system (INS) and a global positioning system (GPS). JDAM improves the accuracy of unguided bombs in any weather condition and is fully integrated on Navy fighter-attack aircraft such as the AV-8B, F/A-18 and F-35. JDAM with the addition of a Precision Laser Guidance Set (PLGS) becomes Laser JDAM (LJDAM), a flexible dual mode weapon utilizing Laser and GPS aided INS to guide the weapon.
The Navy can use them. The modifications were just developed by the USAF. The BLU-117 is an American general-purpose bomb that has been around since the Vietnam war.
Does the Air Force have exclusive use of 2000 lb JDAM bombs? It seems to me, an ignorant civilian, that the Navy, being the Navy and all, is more likely to be in the vicinity of ships that need sinking than the land-based Air Force.