The Joint Programmable Fuze provides critical improvement to the Department of Defense's ability to respond to threats throughout the world. The JPF, in conjunction with the Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), allows aircrews to change fuze settings in-flight (prior to weapon release) to respond to a wide variety of targets. The JPF will work with almost every mainstream guided and unguided air-to-surface bomb in the Air Force and Navy inventory, and can work as a delay fuze for hardened buried targets, as a surface impact fuze for surface point targets, and as an altitude burst fuze when used with a proximity sensor to attack area targets. Being able to select these fuze operational modes in flight significantly increases the flexibility and effectiveness of the weapon. The JPF allows the users to purchase one fuze to perform many missions and it can replace many different types of fuzes that must be currently inventoried around the world. |
