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The goal, when the system is fully developed, is to field four sizes of JPADS - extra light, light, medium and heavy.

"It's the JDAMS of logistics," Major Richardson said. The JPADS is a family of systems designed to bring the same accuracy to the airlift community that strike pilots have enjoyed since the development of GPS-guided bombs, called joint direct attack munitions, or JDAMS. "The system did exactly what it was designed for and delivered ammunition and water to ground troops here in Afghanistan," he said. He deployed here as part of the JPADS Mobile Training Team to oversee the first combat use of the system and to train C-130 crews how to use it. Neil Richardson, chief of the combat programs and policy branch at Air Mobility Command. "This was the first Air Force employment of the joint precision airdrop system in an operational or combat airlift mission," said Maj.

31, using the military's newest airdrop system for the first time in a combat zone.Īn Air National Guard crew, deployed from Alaska's 144th Airlift Squadron, dropped bundles using the Joint Precision Airdrop System, or JPADS, which the Army and Air Force have been developing together since 1993. 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public AffairsīAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) - The same global positioning technology that helps fighter and bomber pilots deliver smart bombs with pinpoint accuracy now allows cargo bundles dropped from cargo planes to steer themselves to drop zones.Ī C-130 Hercules from the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron here dropped supplies to a U.S.