US is likely to send AGM-154 joint jamming weapons to Ukraine: report

The package is expected to be announced on Monday, per Politico.

The AGM-154, also known as the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW), is a “precision strike weapon” manufactured by the Raytheon company.

It is a 1,000-pound class air-to-surface missile that can hit targets about 70 miles away, giving Ukraine a significant boost to its strike arsenal.

While the JSOW lacks the long-range strike capability of air-launched missiles such as the UK’s Storm Shadow or the US’s AGM-158 Joint Air-Surface Stand-off (JASSM) missile, it will still allow Ukraine to target . Russian forces and air defense from safer distances. The Storm Shadow has a range of about 250 km (155 miles), while the JASSM can hit targets about 230 miles away.

JSOW is operated by both the US Air Force and Navy and comes in a number of variants.

The standard version, known as the AGM-154A, is generally used against “fixed and relocatable soft targets such as parked and revved aircraft, trucks, armored personnel carriers and surface-to-air missile sites,” according to the Navy .

News of the impending aid package comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was “actively preparing for negotiations in the US,” which he said would include a meeting with President Joe Biden and likely presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

“Ukraine will always be grateful to the United States for supporting our independence — for all the assistance it provided to help us deal with this war,” Zelenskyi added of X.

Business Insider has reached out to the US Department of Defense for comment.