Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM)

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News release: Raytheon-Boeing Team Successfully Completes Second Government-Funded JAGM Test. Raytheon-Boeing, Sept. 1, 2010.
http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1632&pagetemplate=release
("The JAGM used its imaging infrared (IIR) guidance system to hit an armored vehicle target at 4 kilometers (2.5 statute miles)")

Note:
(1) Raytheon-Boeing Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM)
http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/jagm/
(7-inch diameter)

(a) BGM-71 TOW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW
(an anti-tank guided missile by US;  "TOW" stands for "Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire command data link, guided missile"; in service: 1970-present)
(b) The "rotary and fixed wing" in the sentence "JAGM program is a single missile solution for both rotary and fixed wing platforms" refers to aircraft. A rotorcraft or rotary wing aircraft usually means a helicopter.
(c) Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk
(introduced 1984; sectionj 1.6  MH-60R Seahawk)
(d) For "Warrior Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)," see
General Atomics MQ-1C Warrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1C_Warrior
(e) In the right column of this web page:
(i) JAGM Data Sheet
("will be able to engage any threat target, including heavy armor, buildings, bunkers and boats with unerring accuracy in all modes of engagement, and in all weather")

(ii) The link to "Videos" are no longer active.

However, the first video--titled "JAGM Video: First Government Test"--is in YouTube. See next.  (The second video--titled "JAGM Dual Mode Tracking"--ca not be found.)

(2) Raytheon/Boeing JAGM test shot.
Aug 16, 2010
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66vtgUvPyg
(frist two screens: Public Released PAO#508.2010; First government test of the Raytheon-Boeing Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, June 23, 2010)

(3) Ann Roosevelt, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon-Boeing Team Each Receive JAGM Awards. Defense Daily, Sept. 19, 2008.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6712/is_57_239/ai_n30910598/


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