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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Australian industry working on JDAM

F/A-18 Hornet |Minister for Defence Materiel Dr Mike Kelly has welcomed the Boeing Company’s selection of Australian supplier Ferra Engineering Pty Ltd to manufacture a new extended range wing kit that will enhance the performance of the Royal Australian Air Force’s Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).

Dr Kelly said the JDAM Extended Range (JDAM-ER) bomb was an Australian initiative to extend the range of an existing JDAM weapon, used by Australia’s fleet of F/A-18A/B Hornets, by combining it with the newly-developed wing kit.

“The wing kit will almost triple the weapon’s current range, making the JDAM-ER a very cost effective weapon,” Dr Kelly said.

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