Air Force Greenlights Long-Range JDAM Production for Boeing

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $75 million contract to produce the BSU-111/B Payload Delivery Unit (PDU) Joint Direct Attack Munition Long Range (JDAM LR), a precision-guided munition with a range of over 300 nautical miles.

Boeing's JDAM LR builds on the existing JDAM family of weapons, combining the proven guidance tail kit and aircraft interface with a wing kit and compact turbojet engine to provide long-range capability for precision conventional land strike, naval strike, and maritime aerial-mining missions.

The system recently completed its first flight test off the coast of California, meeting the objectives of sustaining powered flight on a predefined test profile and using military-code GPS navigation while maintaining consistent guidance directly to its target.