Price For JASSM (Air To Surface Missile) Keeps On Rising

From ELP Defens(c)e Blog:

Part of the goal of the JASSM as hyped by the sales force was to provide a $400,000 cruise missie in 1995 dollars.

This was yet another example of trying to get the gullible Congress et al to sign off on a weapons program that had no proof that it could meet price performance.

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More News On JASSM

Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Achieves Successful Reliability Flight Tests -- Reuters
Getting It Right -- Strategy Page
U.S. Air Force says Lockheed must fix JASSM issues -- Reuters (May 15, 2009)
Lockheed says US order shows commitment to missile -- Reuters (July 6, 2009)