number of jdams used dropped
Air Force pilot Maj. Mike âPakoâ Benitez tells Boeing employees how JDAMs have been used in Afghanistan and elsewhere, on Jan. 24, 2017 (photo by Jesse Bogan/Post-Dispatch) Boeing is ramping up production of JDAM tail kits that help guide bombs to targets. The U.S. Air Force dropped 15,000 of them in 2016. Courtesy of Boeing. Not much is left of the business district of eastern Mosul, Iraq, after airstrikes and heavy fighting between Iraqi security forces and ISIS militants on January 19, 2017. During that weekend, 243 JDAMs from America were launched to Mosul.