ST. LOUIS, Feb. 09, 1998 -- The warhead of the Boeing Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) successfully penetrated a thick, reinforced concrete target with no adverse affect on the casing or the fuze in a recent sled test.
"This successful test is significant in demonstrating the effectiveness of our low-cost, low-risk warhead design for JASSM," said Jim Gates, vice president and program manager for JASSM in the Boeing Phantom Works.
The sled test was conducted Jan. 24 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., using an inert warhead and an instrumented fuze. The purpose was to collect full-scale test data to validate the models used for predicting the performance of the warhead casing and fuze.
"The warhead performed as predicted and met all expectations," said Elmer Lueker, the JASSM payload integrated product team leader in Phantom Works. "After experiencing shock loads as high as 12,000 Gs, there was no deformation of the casing and the fuze timing delay performed to the millisecond."
The warhead struck the thick, reinforced concrete target, penetrated through it and traveled another half mile down range. The clean exit hole it left indicates that it had maintained the desired straight trajectory while traversing the thick target.
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