US Air Force to double spending on JASSM stealth cruise missiles; overall purchase of 7,200 missiles

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Also notable: the Air Force more than doubled its spending estimate for Lockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile to match a planned jump in the number of weapons it will buy, according to a summary of the Pentagon’s most recent Selected Acquisition Reports. The JASSM program is slated to grow from $4.7 billion to about $10 billion as the stockpile grows by more than 4,000 missiles to total 7,200 weapons.

The Air Force’s 2020 budget, released in March, said 7,200 missiles will cost $9.4 billion—about $500 million less than is listed in the SAR summary. The program includes the baseline variant, an extended-range variant, and an “extreme-range” variant called the AGM-158D.

JASSM is the Air Force’s stealthy, long-range conventional cruise missile, which would be a key munition in a campaign against a modern air defense system. Its stockpile projection indicates the Air Force is taking steps to complement its stealthy fifth-generation fighters and bombers with similarly low-profile weapons. JASSM variants will fly on the B-1, B-2, B-52, F-15, F-16, and F-35, according to Lockheed.

http://www.airforcemag.com/Features...rt-Pegs-Air-Force-One-Cost-at-52-Billion.aspx

 

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Of why there is a window of time now for Iran to get nukes and get nukes fast. Once these stealth cruise missiles are had, will existing SAMs work to stop them. Or will Iran have to purchase S-500s. Even if Iran could get S-500s, a swarm of missiles could overload defenses and the layered SAM defense won't work since these are stealth missiles. So every major SAM site, missile base, radar station, airbase will be destroyed destroying billions of dollars of Iranian equipment.

Isn't the sane thing for Iran to do is to get nukes to prevent a war, a war using these stealth cruise missile.

Iranian ADS allow Iran to have the edge in a war now, but in a matter of weeks and months, this will change when stealth cruise missiles are introduced.

Iran might be a helpless victim like Saddam.

War may cometh with these new weapons.

 

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Of why there is a window of time now for Iran to get nukes and get nukes fast. Once these stealth cruise missiles are had, will existing SAMs work to stop them. Or will Iran have to purchase S-500s. Even if Iran could get S-500s, a swarm of missiles could overload defenses and the layered SAM defense won't work since these are stealth missiles. So every major SAM site, missile base, radar station, airbase will be destroyed destroying billions of dollars of Iranian equipment.

Isn't the sane thing for Iran to do is to get nukes to prevent a war, a war using these stealth cruise missile.

Iranian ADS allow Iran to have the edge in a war now, but in a matter of weeks and months, this will change when stealth cruise missiles are introduced.

Iran might be a helpless victim like Saddam.

War may cometh with these new weapons.

Funny tht u think the US cannot do strikes even now. Iran wont even know wat hit them, even israel striked inside iran and they didnt know, using F35s.

 

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even israel striked inside iran and they didnt know, using F35s.

Even the propaganda Kuwait paper Al-Jarida did not make this crazy claim!

 

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Even the propaganda Kuwait paper Al-Jarida did not make this crazy claim!

Do some research and ull find out.

 

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Do some research and ull find out.

Show me your proof that "Israel striked inside Iran [with F-35]".

 

[Yaseen1]

u.s already have thousands of such missiles in its stockpile

 

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Show me your proof that "Israel striked inside Iran [with F-35]".

As i said u have to research, proofs for such events are never made public, israel papers though did claim. In any case iran cannot take on raptors n f35. My point was for the poster who thinks iran should quickly make nuclear weapons coz after hypersonic stealth cruise missiles, it wont be able to save itself.

 

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As i said u have to research, proofs for such events are never made public

So you are saying you have access to private confidential information that proves your ridiculous claim that Israel used F-35s to strike inside Iran?

If the proof is not public, how am I supposed to research to falsify your assertion?

 

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So you are saying you have access to private confidential information that proves your ridiculous claim that Israel used F-35s to strike inside Iran?

If the proof is not public, how am I supposed to research to falsify your assertion?

This is called research, to connect dots n find stuff whose proof is not available. U should try it. Ofcourse its my assertion and u can disagree with it. But u cannot disagree with the fact that US can strike anywhere, anytime in iran at will.

 

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u cannot disagree with the fact that US can strike anywhere, anytime in iran at will.

And Iran can retaliate at any US interests in the region, anytime and at will also.

Hence, despite decades of aggressive rhetoric and threats, there has been no war.

 

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And Iran can retaliate at any US interests in the region, anytime and at will also.

Hence, despite decades of aggressive rhetoric and threats, there has been no war.

Maybe in a limited capacity. There has been no war because the west wants to balance sunni and shias. If shia iran is destroyed, sunnis will become powerful and then turn towards israel. Keeping sunni arabs occupied with an assertive iran works best for the world. They keep sanction on iran to make sure it doznt become too strong, but never want to destroy it fully.

 

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Maybe in a limited capacity. There has been no war because the west wants to balance sunni and shias. If shia iran is destroyed, sunnis will become powerful and then turn towards israel. Keeping sunni arabs occupied with an assertive iran works best for the world. They keep sanction on iran to make sure it doznt become too strong, but never want to destroy it fully.

They put the strongest sanctions in modern history on the one Shia country (other than Bahrain and Iraq), whilst supplying all the surrounding Sunni Arab countries with billions of dollars of the latest weapons - this is to keep a "balance"?

Goal of US in Iran is regime change and always was. Economic sanctions are a form of warfare: this is the growing consensus of academics in this field.

 

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They put the strongest sanctions in modern history on the one Shia country (other than Bahrain and Iraq), whilst supplying all the surrounding Sunni Arab countries with billions of dollars of the latest weapons - this is to keep a "balance"?

Goal of US in Iran is regime change and always was. Economic sanctions are a form of warfare: this is the growing consensus of academics in this field.

Well they wanted to take that oil money without danger to israel. Yes regime change also serves them best because a liberal and secular iran would still be enemy of arabs. The mullah regime did its job well but now crossing limits.

 

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Well they wanted to take that oil money without danger to israel. Yes regime change also serves them best because a liberal and secular iran would still be enemy of arabs. The mullah regime did its job well but now crossing limits.

Your anti-Iran agenda is clear, but I think we can maybe agree that the US is exploiting divisions in ME to make profits from weapons sales by making PG Arabs think Iran is big and dangerous threat so they must buy US weapons for protection.