Ukraine-supported tactical bomb JDAM applied to Korean fighter jets, ‘exported’ to Poland

The tactical bomb JDAM, which is urgently supported by President Biden in Ukraine, was demonstrated prior to Korean fighter jets, and the possibility of application to KF-50 fighter jets co-produced by Lockheed Martin exported to Poland has increased.
The South Korean Ministry of National Defense announced in October that a South Korean warplane had dropped two rounds of joint direct attack ammunition, and released a photo of the drop, as reported by the Associated Press.
Shortly after Ukrainian President Zelensky visited the United States on a US military aircraft and President Biden announced support for a $1.85 billion military aid package, the New York Times reported, “What is JDAM?” “What will they do for Ukraine?” article said on the 23rd that “the United States is delivering satellite-guided bombs to Kyiv for the first time as part of a new $1.85 billion military aid package.”
Regarding the satellite-guided bombs provided by the United States, “JDAM is a kit that is bolted on to the US Army’s general-purpose Mark-80 series bombs and turns them into GPS-guided weapons.” Designed to be easily fitted with a variety of tail fins and fuzes, it has been converted for decades to low-level bombardment, land or sea mines, and various types of guided weapons with a variety of attachments,” the NYT said.
Regarding the problem of the JDAM kit in the way of using a conventional US-made bomb as a kit and used as a guided bomb, it is not designed to be used with Ukraine's Russian-made bombs, so the Russian fighters used by Ukraine cannot carry the American-made bombs and the Russian flight The computer cannot communicate electronically with US guided munitions.

The Biden administration formalized support for JDAM this week, which is included in $1.85 billion of precision-guided bombing capabilities, with updated kits that add a pair of wings that open after bombing at 15 miles and fly bombs over 40 miles. this is possible
The New York Times said, "U.S. weapons dropped during the fighting after the September 11 War, after stealth bombers first dropped over Kosovo in 1999, will soon be used by Ukrainian pilots flying Russian-made jets to kill Russian soldiers." The weapon consisted of a kit that turned a cheap unguided bomb into a highly accurate GPS-guided weapon.”
The Biden administration previously rejected Poland's request for US fighter support in the early days of the Ukraine war.
The Korean KF-50 fighter, co-manufactured with Lockheed Martin and transferred from the basic model of the F-16 discontinued by the US, uses an American-made bomb kit and is operated by an American-style computer.
The NYT said, “The electrical signal generated when the pilot presses a button to drop a bomb must be converted into a signal recognized by the US-made device. “A new type of US bomb rack and pylon provides a solution, and one ‘smart’ pylon used with HARM missiles (US-made high-speed radioactive missiles) is currently in service with the Ukrainian Air Force.” revealed
The satellite guided bomb is the last step, when all other conversions and adapters are figured out, it transmits the data from the cockpit to the pylon, which is what the US military used a laptop with a GPS device connected to a smart pylon via Bluetooth over a decade ago on a foreign aircraft. "We have developed a system that applies GPS-assisted weapons," former weapons officer Mike Pitchercha, a retired Air Force colonel, told the New York Times.
"Today, you can use a tablet with a GPS attachment and commercial flight software to do the same thing," he continued. "From there, the pylon will transmit the data to the bomb itself."
The U.S. F-4G and F-15E fighters apply this, and on September 16, a contract was signed to export 48 Korean FA-50 fighters with the same application method to Poland.
Boeing, the munitions maker of JDAM kits, says on its website that it has built more than 500,000 for the United States and its allies.”
The compatibility issue with the US-made High Speed Radiation Missile (HARM) was previously resolved.
“The U.S. military solved the hardest part of this problem a few months ago when Ukrainian pilots first started shooting American-made HARMs, and an adapter was created to connect a device called a pylon and other parts that hold the weapon to the jet,” the NYT said. The standard bombs used by the US and Russia are very different in design, as are the devices used to attach to fighter planes and drop them onto targets. The American bomb has two small steel lugs that hold it snugly at high speed and secures it to a rack designed to be pushed out of the fuselage quickly when the pilot presses a button to drop it, while the Russian bomb has one suspension lug and the American-made rack that drops it. It is not compatible with the weapon.”
President Zelensky said at a joint press conference at the White House on the 21st, "Support for Patriot missiles will be a key measure to strengthen our air defense capabilities. did not say.

The ROK Air Force fired a Spice 2000 precision-guided bomb from the East Sea toward the open sea north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) on November 2 with a KF-16 fighter and released a photo.
On this day, the Air Force fired two SLAM-ER air-to-surface missiles and one Spice 2000 precision-guided bomb from F-15K and KF-16 fighter jets into the high seas north of the NLL in response to North Korea's firing of ballistic missiles into the high seas south of the NLL.

On November 30, 6 Russian Air Force planes and 2 Chinese Air Force planes jointly entered the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) in the East Sea and landed at the airport of the other country on the same day, the Chinese Global Times reported on the 1st.
On December 6, 10 Korean K2 tanks and 24 K9 self-propelled howitzers arrived in Poland and had a welcome ceremony.