USAF considers new anti-ship weapon.

Harry Andreas wrote:

I detect the distinctive smell of marketing-types ghost writing that article.
While JASSM is a joint AF-Navy project, I was under the impression that
the Navy was considering pulling out of JASSM in favor of SLAM-ER, which
itself is a derivative of Harpoon.

Just as likely that there's a little bad blood after the Air Force
changed its preference to WCMD-ER over JSOW, same range, lower cost and
much more bang for the buck. Did I mention it just straps onto a dumb
cluster bomb shape. Of course JASSM lately has had a few QC problems
and that could explain the Navy's preference for SLAM-ER.

Michael Kelly
BUFF Flight Tester