BF-3, a short take-off and vertical landing F-35 variant, executed an inert 1,000-pound GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) separation weapon over water in an Atlantic test range while travelling at 400 knots at an altitude of 4,200 feet.
What does JDAM stand for?
JDAM stands for Joint Direct Attack Munition
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The package, which Congress has 30 days to approve or reject, includes 600 BLU-109 2,000-pound Hard Target Penetrator bunker-buster bombs and 600 Joint Direct Attack Munition kits that give the munitions Global Positioning System guidance.
Israel also requested Joint Direct Attack Munition bombs, seeking to significantly increase the number of bombs that it already has in its arsenal.
4 reported an Israeli Defence Ministry official as saying the Israel Air Force (IAF) had purchased a new and advanced Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition (LJDAM) smart bomb with a laser-targeting system which will improve the IAF's ability to accurately hit fast-moving targets.
When the United States Central Command Air Force commander wanted to deliver smaller sized weapons, with the same accuracy as that of the GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition, the Air Force acquisition community responded.