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Air Force Abandons Concept To Strike Maritime Targets With Seekerless Bomb

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By Michael Sirak The Air Force has decided against procuring the capability to attack maritime targets with a specially configured version of the Joint Direct Attack Munition, known as the JDAM AMSTE, judging this approach to be too difficult, senior service officials said last week. "We had pursued the JDAM AMSTE program, but found that...when we looked at this in detail, that we believed it to be too complex," Maj. Gen. Mark Matthews, director of plans and programs for Air…

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