reliability has dogged the system for along time now - nearly 18 months aho these very issues were being reported.
but since AUS have bought into it , will it be cancelled?
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Topic started on 16-6-2007 @ 07:37 PM by FredT
Concerns over the poor reliablity rate of the JASSM stealthy cruise missile is raising the specter of cancellation. If performance issues cannot be
resolved in a timely, cost effective manner, the USAF may eye the MBDA Storm Shadow cruise missile or one of the Navy's systems: Tactical Tomahawk
and Standoff Land-Attack Missile Expanded Response.
In the Pentagon's latest round of program reviews, one effort stands out as the problem child--the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, a stealthy cruise missile being produced by Lockheed Martin.
Six hundred Jassms are now fielded, but tests continue to undermine Air Force confidence in the reliability of the weapon.
After poor results from firings in December and April, officials calculated the system has a 58% reliability rate, a problem that, if not fixed, could send the program the way of its defunct predecessor, the Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile. Tssam was canceled because of spiraling cost in the mid-1990s.
USAF 'Very Concerned' About Jassm Reliability
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