The Joint Direct Attack Munition is a guidance tail kit that converts existing unguided free-fall bombs into accurate, adverse weather "smart" munitions. With the addition of a new tail section ...

with the latter using the JDAM-ER kit for the Mk-62 and Mk-64 Quickstrike mines of the U.S. Navy, a family of shallow-water, aircraft-laid mines used against surface and subsurface craft.

Back in 2023, the first JDAM kits were reportedly deployed by Ukraine to counter the Russian invasion of the country. What a JDAM does is to essentially take a conventional “dumb” bomb and ...

TASS/. The Ukrainian military dropped a bomb equipped with the US-made JDAM guidance kit in the area of Kurdyumovka near Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut by Ukraine) in the Donetsk People’s Republic ...

Ukraine's Su-27s are likely to start using the 454-kilogram Mark 83 bombs, which have been adapted to the JDAM-ER planning ...