Fourth-generation fighter F-15E Strike Eagle Air Force (Air Force) For the first time, received low-interest Rockets AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (Jassm), intended, in particular, for penetration into the enemy zone of restrictions and Access and maneuver, reports The Drive.
According to the publication, F-15E Strike Eagle received five AGM-158 Jassm installed on external aircraft pendants. The publication argues that in this way, part of the tasks will be transferred to the fighter, which usually perform strategic bombers, for example, B-1B Lancer.
The Drive writes that AGM-158 Jassm has proven itself in conflicts in the Middle East. The publication assumes that these rockets can be useful, for example, for the “destruction” of the Russian air defense (air defense) in the Kaliningrad region. “We recently wrote like the crews F-15E Strike Eagle worked tactics, techniques and procedures, which will be involved when applied by caustic missiles on the Baltic Sea Strategic Region, where there is a large Russian military fortress,” writes the publication.
In February, Janes reported that the United States Air Force will receive 400 winged stealth rockets AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (Jassm-Er).
In June 2020, the Information and Consulting Agency Defense Express stated that the AGM-158B Jassm-ER missile, launched from the US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, is able to “get” to Russia without entering these aircraft to controlled anti-aircraft missile complexes (SP) S-400 “Triumph” area of airspace.