Team members from the Conventional Strike Weapons Program Office located at Patuxent River marked another major technical success for joint precision-guided munitions on April 18 and 19. These flights will acquire captive carriage flight environmental data early so that the measured environments can be used to confirm design requirements for the production representative MK-82 Environmental Guided Test Vehicle and Guided Test Vehicle units. The acquired load, vibration, thermal, and acoustic data for the full flight test envelope will be used to support the final design of the MK-82 JDAM configuration.
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The need for improved weapon capabilities in periods of adverse weather was a shortfall highlighted during Operation Desert Storm - the JDAM series will address this shortfall. Each weapon can be independently targeted, allowing multiple impact points for a single target complex and a higher single sortie probability of damage. Find people you served with in the military.