America's Next Cruise Missile Will Strike From 1,000 Miles Away
The Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, used in April's attack on Syria, is about to get even longer legs.
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By Kyle Mizokami
Sep 12, 2018
The Pentagon’s newest air-to-ground missile is about to get a long range upgrade, allowing it to strike targets from farther away than ever before.
The JASSM-XR cruise missile will give U.S. tactical aircraft the ability to strike targets more than a thousand miles away. To give you an idea of this kind of reach, it means a bomber circling Manhattan could strike targets as away as Minneapolis, Minnesota or Jacksonville, Florida with pinpoint accuracy.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23105106/jassm-xr-cruise-missile-extended-range/
