Boeing JDAM LR offers long-range, standoff option for precision-guided munition and cruise missile inventories

A Navy F/A-18 carries the new Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Long Range (LR) variant during a test event in early April 2026 off the coast of California. (Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division)

Boeing's GBU-75 Joint Direct Attack Munition Long Range (JDAM LR) is an evolutionary upgrade over the Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended Range (JDAM ER) munition and standard JDAM, giving operators more flexibility to strike targets from standoff ranges, a Boeing spokesperson told Janes .

The baseline JDAM entered service in 1999, designed to convert ‘dumb' bombs into precision-guided munitions. It is capable of striking targets from up to 15 n miles. Since then, the JDAM ER added a glide wing, extending its range to 40 n miles.

The JDAM LR equips a “modular, compact air-breathing propulsion technology” powered by a Kratos TDI-J85 engine to the munition's existing glide wing kit, extending its range further and turning the JDAM LR into a “system designed to augment current precision-guided munition and cruise missile inventories by providing a high-volume, standoff option”, a Boeing spokesperson told Janes on 16 June.

Boeing said in a company statement the JDAM LR can deliver “combat power from outside anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) systems' effective ranges”.

Rather than reliance on a bespoke high-end missile architecture, the company is presenting the JDAM LR as a powered, long-range derivative of the JDAM family, aimed at filling the gap between low-cost direct-attack bombs and more expensive standoff missiles.