The aircraft MC-130J Commando II Air Force United States (Air Force) threw the cargo that simulates the pallet with winged stealth missiles AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER), according to The Drive .
The appropriate tests took place at the beginning of this year, but the details about them appeared only in June. It is noted that in this way has been worked out conversion transporter MC-130J Commando II in plane arsenal. The publication notes during the exercise freighter received the coordinates of the point of discharge pallet, after which it was defined a new target for the attack, which required to spend retargeting missiles. “In essence, the concept of Rapid Dragon involves the use of aircraft as trucks with weapons to provide additional impact power, especially during potential operations of a higher class against loved ones [according to the USA] of competitors like China or Russia,” the publication writes.
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 S-400 “Triumph” area of airspace. “Considering the starting distance of the winged Rockets AGM-158B Jassm-ER 980 kilometers and AGM-86C [Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile] Calcm by more than 1200 kilometers, this is enough to attack the main strategic objects of Russia in the Arctic and part of Siberia,” – It was said in the relevant publication.
According to Lieutenant-General in the resignation of Atecha Bizev, at the same time commented on this point of view, the air defense systems of Russia are able to shoot down to 90 percent of the goals, including long-range bombers.