About these USA Precision Guided Air-to-Surface Weapons for Ukraine?

[Arrow 83]

I've read and heard these mentioned in a number of news articles and newscasts. So I'm wondering if anyone here knows what exactly these announced A-S precision guided weapons are? And a further question - how would they be fitted to MIG-29 hardpoints? IIRC some of the former Eastern Bloc Air Forces which later joined NATO converted their Fulcrums to allowing fitting various NATO weapons - Germany comes to mind. So is it likely that Ukraine's Fulcrums will be ready to fit these weapons upon delivery? Or will there likely be some lag between delivery and operational, due to the Ukraine AF having to make adjustments?

And color me surprised that Russia hasn't established enough air superiority around  the 4 regions they've claimed to have annexed, to prevent the Ukraine AF from even considering such A-S missions.

[+EricJ 4,245]

They've fitted HARMs to Mig-29s and reportedly the Ukrainian Su-27s, but who knows about stuff like Mavericks and the like, though admittedly I've only seen HARMs.

[+daddyairplanes 10,243]

dont think theyre talking Mavericks, they have mostly been talking JDAM.

only recently hearing about mounting them on fighters, a few weeks ago they were talking about mounting  SDBs as warheads on the HiMARs rockets. Boeing has been working on this for some time and its supposedly able to go into service next year

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/100-mile-strike-weapon-weighed-ukraine-arms-makers-wrestle-with-demand-sources-2022-11-28/

 

[Arrow 83]

Thanks for the replies. HARMs with their roughly 40 nmi range make sense to me. But JDAMS - they only have a range of about 15 nmi. If Ukrainian Fulcrums and Flankers can get  close enough to Russian targets to launch a JDAM, that's  surely a sad comment on the Russian AF's ability to establish air superiority and their ground forces to provide adequate SAM defenses.
As to Boeing's GLSDBs - hell yeah I'd like to se the Ukrainian army get some of those.

[Edit] This image of a Ukrainian Fulcrum launching a HARM, is linked from the actual AGM-88 Wikipedia page. So I guess the Ukraine AF has been equipping HARMs for a while?

Edited December 23, 2022 by Arrow