WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Boeing has received a nearly one-third of a billion dollar US Air Force order for 15,000 more Joint Direct Attack Munitions tail kits to give precision-guidance capabilities to gravity weapons, the US Department of Defense announced.
"Boeing Defense Space and Security, St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a $325.8 million… contract for 15,000 Lot 20 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) tail kits," the announcement on stated on Thursday.
Work will be performed at St. Louis, Missouri and is expected to be completed by March 29, 2018, the Defense Department said.
JDAM-equipped bombs are guided by an integrated inertial guidance system coupled to a Global Positioning System receiver.
JDAM kits give bombs a published range of up to 15 nautical miles (28 km) and from 1998 to August 20, 2013, Boeing delivered 250,000 JDAM kits, producing more than 40 guidance kits per day, the announcement said.
