Russian air defense defenseless in front of the JAGM missile
23 June during a test rocket hit a direct hit target size 2,4 × 2,4 m, located at a distance 16 km from the launcher. This test is one of the last steps in the adoption of this munition into service.
The video clearly shows how the rocket leaves the launch guide with climb and hits the target with a dive. One of the test conditions was the testing of a three-mode homing head for the effectiveness of target acquisition in all modes: infrared, laser and millimeter-wave radio waves. Three-mode homing head provides high accuracy of hitting the target and guarantee protection against any interference.
JAGM missile should replace the main weapon helicopters and attack aircraft - AGM-114 Hellfire and AGM-65 Maverick missiles.
The adoption of the JAGM rocket into service with AH-64 Apache helicopters will seriously change the balance of power on the battlefield. The fact is that modern army air defense systems that protect deployed units on the battlefield have a firing range of about 10 km. So, the newest Russian air defense system Tor-M2U (which will begin to arrive in the troops in 2011 year) with "pressure" and assumptions on the firing range only approaches 16 km. AH-64 with JAGM can quite safely bombard the air defense system, while also taking advantage of the shelters and folds of the terrain - thanks to the “let-forget” principle (i.e., it came out from behind the shelter, launched the rocket and hid again).
Naturally, with the advent of JAGM on the battlefield, the firepower and security of the helicopter will increase significantly, and the effectiveness of modern military air defense will decrease.
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