Jassm missiles for Moscow shocks: Trump want to equip the Armed Forces with new weapons - the media

They are intended for the Ukrainian F-16 fighter fighters, which mostly consists of outdated copies of the Cold War, the newspaper writes. The interlocutors emphasize that, despite the age of aviation engineers, all F-16 planes in the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces are effective launchers for missiles during flights deep in the rear.

Other fighters of the Ukrainian army, namely the Soviet Su-27 and Su-24MM, have already modified for the launches of British and French winged rockets Storm Shadow and Scalp. Some of them can compare the characteristics with Jassm. The lack of European winged missiles has increased calls for the transfer of this weapons by the states. Jassm is expected to significantly increase the efficiency of the Ukrainian F-16 park.

The Jassm winged missiles came into service with the US Army in 2003 and combined limited capacity to evade radars with a high level of accuracy and a mass of warheads of 450 kilograms. Currently, this rocket is in service with the armies of four countries. Poland received 110 such rockets for its F-16 fighter jets, and the request of South Korea for the purchase of Jassm in the early 2010s was rejected.

The documents of the Pentagon stated that the production of the basic version of AGM-158A Jassm was completed in 2021, all of them were produced more than 2,000 pieces. Modification of Extended Range (Jassm-ER) missiles with a distance of up to 925 kilometers will allow the Armed Forces to beat large Russian cities, including Moscow. We will remind, the corporation Lockheed Martin 2024 introduced the missiles Jassm XR with extreme range of target damage.