Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., are asking the Raytheon Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Ariz., to produce 555 full-rate-production lot 11 AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) systems.
The order includes 200 AGM-154C-1 unitary-variant JSOW missiles for the U.S. Navy and 355 AGM-154 Block III C unitary-variant JSOW missiles for the government of Saudi Arabia.
The AGM-154 JSOW is medium range precision-guided weapon for attacking defended targets from outside the range of standard anti-aircraft defenses. Pilots typically fire JSOW from ranges of 22 to 70 nautical miles.
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The weapon can be launched from F/A-18, F-16, F-15, F-35, and Jas Gripen jet fighter-bombers; as well as from B-1B, B-2A, and B-52H long-range jet bombers. The AGM-154C JSOW unitary variant uses an imaging infrared seeker with autonomous guidance.
The two-stage AGM-154C carries the BROACH warhead made up from a WDU-44 shaped augmenting warhead and a WDU-45 follow through bomb, and is designed to attack hardened targets like armor, concrete, and earth to enable a large following warhead to explode inside the target. The JSOW 13 feet long and weighs about 1,000 pounds.
On this contract Raytheon will do the work in Tucson, Ariz.; Dallas; and McAlester, Okla., and should be finished by April 2018. For more information contact Raytheon Missile Systems online at www.raytheon.com, or Naval Air Systems Command at www.navair.navy.mil.
