AGM-158 JASSM
The U.S. Air Force (Air Force) will receive 400 AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) stealth cruise missiles, Janes reported.
The corresponding contract, totaling $ 428.4 million, concluded with the American company Lockheed Martin, provides for the production of missiles by July 2025.
In June 2020, the Defense Express information and consulting agency announced that the AGM-158B JASSM-ER rocket launched from the US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber is capable of reaching Russia without these aircraft entering a controlled anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) S-400 “Triumph” airspace. “Given the launch range of AGM-158B JASSM-ER cruise missiles of 980 kilometers and AGM-86C [Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile] CALCM for more than 1200 kilometers, this is enough to attack the main strategic objects of Russia in the Arctic and parts of Siberia,” – said in the corresponding publication.
According to retired Lieutenant-General Aytech Bizhev, who then commented on this point of view, Russia's air defense systems are capable of shooting down up to 90 percent of targets, including long-range bombers.
