U.S. Smart Munitions
| Missiles | Guided Bombs | Targeting Pods | Sources and Resources |
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Missiles Return to Top
| range km |
CEP m |
quantity current & planned |
IOC |
A-10 | B-52 | B-1B |
B-2 |
F-15 |
F-16 | F-117 | F-14 |
F-18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGM-62 |
Walleye |
1967 | x | |||||||||||
| AGM-65 | Maverick | 27 | 1 | ~40,000 | 1972 | x | x | x | x | |||||
| AGM-84 | Harpoon / SLAM | 100 |
~6,000 | 1977 | x | x | ||||||||
| AGM-86C | CALCM | 1100 |
+300 | 1991 | x | |||||||||
| AGM-88 | HARM | 50 | ~19,000 | 1984 | x | x | ||||||||
| AGM-123 | Skipper | 25 | 1985 | x | ||||||||||
| AGM-130 | 30 | 500 | 1994 | x | ||||||||||
| AGM-136 | TACIT RAINBOW | 430 | 0 | XXX | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| AGM-137 | TSSAM |
100 | 0 | XXX | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| AGM-142 | HAVE NAP | 80 | 130 | 1992 | x | |||||||||
| AGM-154 | JSOW | 75 | ~24,000 | 1998 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||
| AGM-158 | JASSM |
100 | +2,400 | 2001 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| BGM-109 | Tomahawk | 1100 | 2,000 | 1983 | ||||||||||
| LOCAAS | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| FRSW | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
| ARRMD | 1100 | 2010 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
| HyStrike / Fast Hawk | 1300 | 2010 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
Guided Bombs Return to Top
| range km |
CEP m |
quantity current & planned |
IOC |
A-10 | B-52 |
B-1B | B-2 |
F-15 |
F-16 |
F-117 |
F-14 | F-18 | ||
| Laser Guided Bombs | ||||||||||||||
| GBU-10 | Paveway II 2000lb | 15 | 8 | 11,000 | 1976 | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| GBU-12 | Paveway II 500lb | 15 | 8 | 32,000 | 1976 | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| GBU-16 | Paveway II 1000lb | 15 | 8 | 1976 | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| GBU-24 | Paveway III 2000lb | 20 | 8 | 13,000 | 1983 | x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| GBU-27 | HAVE VOID | 20 | 8 | 3,200 | 1987 | x | ||||||||
| GBU-28 | "bunker buster" | 10 | 8 | 300 | 1991 | x | ||||||||
| TV/IR Guided Bombs | ||||||||||||||
| GBU-15 | TV/IR guided | 10 | 3 | +2,000 | 1985 | x | ||||||||
| GPS Guided Bombs | ||||||||||||||
| GBU-15 | GPS-mod | 10 | 3 | ~1,500 | 1999 | x | ||||||||
| GBU-24 E/B | 20 | 8 | 2000 | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| GBU-29 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| GBU-30 | JDAM | 10 | 13 | 87,000 | 1997 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |
| GBU-31 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| GBU-32 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| GBU- | DSHTW | --- | x | |||||||||||
| GBU-36 | GAM | 128 | 1996 | x | ||||||||||
| GBU-37 | 100 | 1996 | x | |||||||||||
| GBU- | ADW | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| MDBDA | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
| Other Guided Bombs | ||||||||||||||
| WCMD | 40,000 | 1998 | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
| MMC [ex-SBS] | ||||||||||||||
| Targeting Pods | IOC | A-10 | B-52 | B-1B | B-2 | F-15 | F-16 | F-117 | F-14 |
F-18 | |
| AN/AAS-35 | Pave Penny |
x | x | ||||||||
| AN/AAS-38 | x | ||||||||||
| AN/ASQ-213 | HARM Targeting Systems (HTS) | x | |||||||||
| AN/AVQ-12 | Pave Spike | ||||||||||
| AN/AVQ-26 | Pave Tack | x | |||||||||
| AN/AXQ-14 | x | ||||||||||
| AN/AWW-7 | Data Link Pod | x | |||||||||
| AN/AWW-9 | Data Link Pod | x | |||||||||
| AN/AWW-12 | Data Link Pod | x | |||||||||
| AN/AWW-13 | Advanced Data Link | x | x | ||||||||
| AN/AWW-14 | Data Link Pod | x | |||||||||
| ATP | Advanced Targeting Pod | x | x | ||||||||
| IRADS | x | ||||||||||
| LANTIRN | x | x | x | ||||||||
| LITENING | x | ||||||||||
| ATFLIR | x | ||||||||||
Sources and Resources Return to Top
- Requested Legal Review of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) Weapon, US Air Force Judge Advocate General, March 21, 2003
- Missile and Munitions Designations
- Hard and/or Deeply Buried Target Defeat Capability (HDBTDC) Program
- Weapons Acquisition: Precision Guided Munitions in Inventory, Production, and Development (Letter Report, 06/23/95, GAO/NSIAD-95-95)
- OPERATION DESERT STORM EVALUATION OF THE AIR CAMPAIGN GAO/NSIAD-97-134 June 1997
- The Ordnance Shop Navy and Marine Corps Aviation Ordnance information and facts
- PRECISION GUIDED MUNITIONS AND THE NEW ERA OF WARFARE Richard P. Hallion Air Power Studies Centre Working Paper NUMBER 53
- Autonomous Weapons Sherwin Chen, Ted Hsieh, James Kung & Vlad Beffa
- The Myth of Surgical Bombing in the Gulf War. Paul Walker
- TECHNOPHORIA: WEAPONS VIDEO VERSUS WEAPONS POLICY -- (BY JAMES FALLOWS AND SCOTT SHUGER) (03 Feb 1991)
- US bombs not much 'smarter' By Fred Kaplan, page A01 Boston Globe 02/20/98
- NEW U-S WEAPONS JIM RANDLE Voice of America 13 February 1998
Some news organizations have been bedeviled by the details:
- $2 Billion Bomber Sits in Wings -- Washington Post, Wednesday, February 18, 1998; Page A01 [An otherwise excellent report, that incorrectly describes the 5000-lb GBU-37 as currently operational.]
- Precision weapons: how smart? @ BBC - [A generaly balanced reports, but a real-audio interview with the Boeing JDAM program manager leaves the incorrect impression that JDAM is operational.]
- America's High-Tech Arsenal @ CNN [Rather skimpy reports on JDAM and JSOW leave the incorrect impression that these weapons are widely deployed and in general use.]
