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	Joint Standoff Weapon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Joint Standoff Weapon ("JSOW") is a joint venture of the United States Navy and Air Force to deploy a standardized medium range precision guided weapon, especially for engagement of defended targets at ranges outside that of standard anti-aircraft defenses, thereby increasing aircraft surviability and minimizing friendly losses.
		The AGM-154A Joint Standoff Weapon or JSOW is currently under development by Raytheon (a.k.a Texas Instruments) for the Air Force and the Navy.
		The JSOW is a launch and leave weapon that employs a tightly coupled Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS), and is capable of day/night and adverse weather operations.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/joint_standoff_weapon (708 words)

	Miltary Equipment Guides -AGM154A
		Description: The AGM-154A Joint Standoff Weapon or JSOW is currently under development by Raytheon [Texas Instruments] for the Air Force and the Navy.
		The AGM-154A (Formerly Advanced Interdiction Weapon System) is intended to provide a low cost, highly lethal glide weapon with a standoff capability.
		The weapon will be deployed from both carrier- and land-based aircraft, employing insensitive munitions technology.
	www.military.com /Resources/EQG/EQGmain?file=AGM154A&cat=o&lev=2 (700 words)

	AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon [JSOW]
		The AGM-154A Joint Standoff Weapon or JSOW is currently under development by Raytheon [Texas Instruments] for the Air Force and the Navy.
		The Joint Standoff Weapon allowed naval aircraft to strike from outside of the enemy's point defenses, combining inertial guidance and global positioning satellite accuracy to yield impressive results.
		Weapons receipt inspection, reprogramming and Built-In-Test were performed on 12 assets received from the USS Carl Vinson via the USS Kilahuea ammunition supply ship.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/munitions/agm-154.htm (1948 words)

	Tester Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW), the first of several precision-guided standoff weapons, made its fleet debut eight months ahead of schedule aboard the carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) which deployed in September.
		This new weapon capability arrived in the fleet earlier than expected because of the weapon's successful test performance which allowed the weapons built for the test phase to be available for operational use.
		It's the first weapon in its category that combines low and high altitude launch and leave capability with significant standoff range.
	www.dcmilitary.com /navy/tester/archives/nov13/tst_b111397.html (575 words)

	Edwards Air Force Base - Operational B-1B testers evaluate new weapons capability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During the operational test and evaluation, testers released weapons like the Joint Standoff Weapon and the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile to operationally evaluate various mixed weapons loads.
		The Air Combat Command is also currently testing mixed weapons capabilities within the same weapons bay at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, in order to determine the best operational use of the weapons for warfighters.
		Many of the weapons tested during the developmental phase have already been fielded, others, including the JASSM and JSOW are just beginning to arrive at operational units.
	www.edwards.af.mil /archive/2004/2004-archive-b1b_ot.html (453 words)

	PR&F News: JSOW strong on fleet support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The armament selected for the strike mission (part of Operation Southern Watch) was the Joint Standoff Weapon, an unpowered glide weapon with a range in excess of 40 nautical miles.
		NAVAIR Weapons Division is the Navy's lead field activity for JSOW, and news of the problem reached the Division's JSOW Project Office within hours of the mission.
		A clue to the root cause of the errant weapons lay in the similarity of the misses.
	www.nawcwpns.navy.mil /~pacrange/s1/news/2001/JSOW2.htm (890 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons (2005)
		CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS 99 7 Conventional Weapons Since the Vietnam War significant strides have been made in improving the accuracy of both aircraft navigation systems and systems for the delivery of conventional weapons.
		Joint Conventionally armed, low-observable cruise Air-to-Surface missile with a 1,000 pound warhead optimized Standoff Missile for penetration; it carries a new, high-yield (JASSM) explosive and a hard-target smart fuze.
		Joint Direct The JDAM will upgrade the existing inventory Attack Munition of Mk-83 1,000 and Mk-84 2,000 pound (JDAM) general-purpose unitary bombs by integrating a guidance kit consisting of an inertial navigation system/Global Positioning System guidance kit.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309096731/html/99.html (1682 words)

	B-2 Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For a weapons pass made at 5,000 ft above ground level [AGL] or below, the hit criteria is less than or equal to 300 feet.
		For a weapons pass made at 5,000 feet AGL or below, the hit criteria is less than or equal to 300 feet.
		The hit criteria for a weapons pass made with GAM/ JDAM munitions is less than or equal to 50 feet.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/8574/B2.html (1590 words)

	Lancer drops joint standoff weapons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The weapon is intended to provide a low-cost, highly lethal glide weapon with a standoff capability which allows aircrews to hit a target from a distance, reducing the risk from enemy defenses, officials said.
		The air-to-surface glide weapon has a range of 12 nautical miles at low altitudes and as much as 63 nautical miles at high-altitudes, according to program office experts.
		The weapon is slated for use against a variety of land and sea targets and will operate from ranges outside enemy point defenses.
	www.af.mil /news/story_print.asp?storyID=123005217 (371 words)

	News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		With the aid of GPS satellites, the weapon flew autonomously for approximately 20 nautical miles, located the target using imaging infrared seeker, and impacted the target at the desired aimpoint.
		The JSOW Unitary variant is expected to become the warfighter's weapon of choice when standoff blast/fragmentation or penetration capability is required." With the introduction of the Broach warhead and ATA on the proven JSOW delivery vehicle, a totally new capability will soon be available to the U.S. Navy strike forces.
		The Joint Standoff Weapon is a low-cost family of glide weapons using a common delivery vehicle for three different payloads.
	www.strikenet.js.mil /PAO/jsow_unitary.html (444 words)

	Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW)
		The JSOW family of precision strike weapons is a joint US Navy and US Air Force program, based on a modular design that uses a common airframe, guidance systems and flight control.
		The weapon has a low signature design, which contributes to high probability of survival enroute to defended targets.
		By December 2004 the weapon completed operational testing and is scheduled to become operational by early 2005.
	www.defense-update.com /products/j/jsow.htm (584 words)

	NDM Article - Air Force Seeking Funds to Connect Weapons in Flight
		The weapons designated as “test platforms” for data links are the joint air-to-surface standoff missile, the small diameter bomb and the joint standoff weapon, noted Air Force Maj. Stephen Waller, program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
		Although the notion of “data linking” weapons is attractive to military planners and technically feasible, several issues have to be resolved, such as the concept for how these systems will operate together and whether the sensors and communications devices can be made inexpensive enough that they don’t end up costing more than the weapons.
		A case in point is that the Pentagon’s joint tactical radio program has yet to address any requirements for connecting with weapons.
	www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2004/Jul/Air_Force_Seeking.htm (550 words)

	The US Navy
		The Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) is a key program that replaces five types of legacy air-to-ground weapons currently in the Navy's inventory.
		It is a joint Navy-Air Force program, with the Navy as the lead service.
		It provides a family of precision-guided weapons enabling defended target engagement from increased standoff distances (15 to 65 nautical miles) enhancing aircraft survivability.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=2100&tid=300&ct=2 (369 words)

	Naval Technology - JSF (F-35) - Joint Strike Fighter
		Weapons are carried in two parallel bays located in front of the landing gear.
		Each weapons bay is fitted with two hardpoints for carrying a range of bombs and missiles.
		Weapons to be cleared for internal carriage include: JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition), CBU-105 WCMD (Wind-Corrected Munitions Dispenser) for the Sensor-Fuzed Weapon, JSOW (Joint StandOff Weapon), Paveway II guided bombs, AIM-120C AMRAAM air-to-air missile; for external carriage: JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile), AIM-9X Sidewinder and Storm Shadow cruise missile.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/jsf (1704 words)

	AGM-154 JSOW Missile - Strategic Air Command - Nuclear Warhead
		The AGM-154 JSOW (Joint Standoff Weapon) is a modular precision-attack glide bomb, which is included in this missile directory because of its guided missile designation (future versions of JSOW will possibly be powered, though).
		The primary development goal was a pure fire-and-forget weapon without any post-launch target designation, like a laser designator or a command data link.
		In the same year, the AIWS program was combined with Air Force standoff weapons programs and renamed JSOW (Joint Standoff Weapon).
	www.strategic-air-command.com /missiles/Aircraft-Launched_Missiles/Agm-154_JSOW_missile.htm (747 words)

	Tester Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The "standoff" capability of the weapon allows these aircraft to remain outside the enemy threat area, up to more than 40 miles, and deliver the weapon accurately on a target.
		The goal is to get rid of multiple, aging weapons and go to a single weapon capable of multiple functions that comes from a single logistics management pipeline.
		We accept this weapon clearly as a reminder to our potential foes that we are moving into the new millennium right now, and we can put people at risk with greater lethality than we ever have before.
	www.dcmilitary.com /navy/tester/archives/july23/tst_a72398.html (1376 words)

	JOINT STANDOFF WEAPON (JSOW) - FY99 Activity
		The Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) is a family of kinematically efficient, air-to-surface glide weapons, in the 1000-lb class, that provide standoff capabilities from both high and low altitudes.
		A launch and leave weapon, JSOW employs a tightly coupled Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System and is capable of day/night and adverse weather operations.
		This system is an interdiction weapon with a target set identical to the SFW, which consists of mixed units of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles/armored personnel carriers and trucks in a tactical road march formation.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/budget/fy1999/dot-e/navy/99jsow.html (1207 words)

	NDM Article - Missile Contest in Australia Draws Top Aerospace Firms
		The use of standoff, precision-guided air-launched cruise missiles is expected to grow worldwide, as military commanders seek capabilities to strike enemy targets without putting pilots at risk, experts said.
		JSOW is a family of GPS-guided air-to-ground weapons designed for both the U.S. Navy and the Air Force.
		The weapon also is being adapted for the B-2 stealth bomber, said Wirt.
	www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2000/Jul/Missile_Contest.htm (2180 words)

	CNN - Standoff with Iraq - U.S. Military
		The carrier is protected by its own planes, as well as a battle group of warships and submarines.
		Since the Gulf War, the United States has greatly increased the firepower of a single carrier, by adding more precision weapons and equipping F-14s to drop bombs.
		The two carriers now in the Persian Gulf combined carry some 650 laser-guided weapons, double the number of smart bombs that all six carriers carried during the Gulf War.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1997/iraq/9802/military.moves/new.weapons/ships/aircraft.carrier.html (139 words)

	B1-B test team drops first Joint Standoff Weapons from Lancer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The JSOW is being developed by Raytheon for the Air Force and Navy and is intended to provide a low cost, highly lethal glide weapon with a standoff capability.
		Brian Tom, one of the weapon system officers onboard during the JSOW mission, said test force experts are also evaluating the vibration and acoustic environment of the B-1B's bomb bays with the new weapons and with various weapons bay door configurations.
		The JSOW and JASSM weapons testing is also relying on the B-1B's new Block E1 avionics software for the first part of the test program, Tom said.
	www.afmc.wpafb.af.mil /HQ-AFMC/PA/news/archive/2003/Jul/0702-03.htm (517 words)

	Local News - Upgrades boast pinpoint accuracy for B-1B bombers
		Scaled-down models of the joint air-to-surface standoff missile, or JASSM, were tested this summer at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee on a model B-1B Lancer.
		This weapon, along with another developing missile, the Navy’s joint standoff weapon, or JSOW, would allow the B-1 to attack a target from outside enemy defenses undetected.
		Flight-tests for the new weapons will begin in fall 2002, and the B-1 could be modified to carry the missiles by 2003, Moore said.
	www.texnews.com /1998/2000/local/b10925.html (552 words)

	B-1 information (txt ver)
		The first conventional weapon to be cleared for use by the B-1 was the Mk 82 general-purpose gravity bomb.
		The size of the minefield depends on the height that the weapon is released from, but it is typically 200 x 650m.
		JSOW is intended to provide a low cost glide weapon with a standoff capability from 30km to 70km, depending on launch altitude.
	www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/leguin/643/web_tree/B-1/html/txt_b1info.html (7485 words)

	AGM-154A Joint Standoff Weapon [JSOW] - Smart Weapons
		Navy accepts first Joint Standoff Weapon Tester July 23, 1998 -- The operator-friendly test models were deployed aboard the USS Nimitz last year and are now deployed on the USS Eisenhower.
		WD Supports JSOW on Kittyhawk The Weaponeer on June 24, 1999 -- One shipment of weapons was coming from an ammunition depot in Oklahoma, and the other contained weapons being transferred from USS Carl Vinson.
		Live Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) Tested On B-2, TEAM Public Affairs, 08 March 2000 -- Members of the Whiteman B-2 Test Team recently tested and evaluated the latest B-2 software upgrade and the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) in a series of missions over the Utah Test and Training Range.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-154.htm (1833 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		The weapons and platforms are really getting better, and it’s going to come down to persistent ISR so we can truly see the shape of the battle space, how it’s changing and what’s evolving.
		For finding relocatable targets and moving targets, we are testing the waters on some sort of high-speed standoff weapon, maybe anywhere from the Mach 2 to 3.5 speed range.
		Retargetability of airborne weapons is going to be directly proportional to time of flight of the weapon.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/jul_04_26.php (1529 words)

	CRITICAL FORCE ENHANCEMENTS
		SFW is a dispenser-delivered, wide-area, adverse-weather munition that gives aircraft the capability to disable or destroy multiple armored vehicles in a single pass.
		The addition of an inertial guidance unit to the SFW dispenser (the wind corrected munitions dispenser) will allow these weapons to be delivered accurately from medium and high altitudes.
		The Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM) is being improved through a remanufacture program to enhance its standoff range and penetration capability.
	www.dod.mil /execsec/adr96/chapt_3.html (2433 words)

	CNN - Inspecting Iraq - U.S. Military
		This is another in the new generation of "stand-off" weapons being developed to lessen the danger to pilots.
		The weapon is called joint because it can be dropped from planes by the Air Force, Navy or Marines.
		The bomb is intended for use against troop concentrations or other targets which are protected by personnel.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1998/iraq/9802/military.moves/new.weapons/armaments/joint.standoff.html (96 words)

	Edwards Air Force Base - B1-B crew expands capabilities with flight test first (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to Maj. Brian Tom, one of the weapon system officers onboard during the JSOW mission, the test force is also evaluating the vibration and acoustic environment of the B-1B's bomb bays with the new weapons and with various weapons bay door configurations.
		The JSOW and JASSM weapons testing is also relying on the B-1B's new Block E1 avionics software for the first part of the test program.
		The bomber test force is continuing weapons integration testing on the B-1B with its second JASSM separation slated for July.
	www.edwards.af.mil /archive/2003/2003-archive-b1_jsow.html (527 words)

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