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Boeing Delivers 200,000th JDAM Tailkit

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Monday, September 22nd, 2008

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The Boeing Co. [BA] delivered the 200,000th Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tailkit, just 10 years after JDAM guidance tailkit deliveries to the United States and allied countries began. Boeing began JDAM production in May 1998 at its weapons manufacturing facility in St. Charles, Mo., and since then has delivered every tailkit on cost and ahead of schedule, according to the company. The Air Force received that 200,000th kit. JDAM is a low-cost guidance kit that converts existing free-fall bombs…

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