AGM-86C/D Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile (CALCM) Mission
Provide an adverse weather, day/night, air-to-surface, accurate, stand-off, and outside-of-theater-defenses strike capability.
Description
The AGM-86C/D Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile (CALCM) provides an adverse weather, day/night, air-to-surface, accurate, stand-off, and outside of theater defenses strike capability. It is equally effective for stand-alone, clandestine/punitive strikes and fully-integrated theater warfare. AGM-86C uses onboard GPS coupled with its Inertial Navigation System (INS) to fly.
This allows the missile to guide itself to the target with pinpoint accuracy. The AGM-86C CALCM differs from the AGM-86B air-launched cruise missile in that it carries a conventional blast/fragmentation payload rather than a nuclear payload and employs a GPS aided INS. The AGM-86D incorporates avionics upgrades as well as a new penetrating warhead. The AGM-86D penetrator is capable against a wide range of hardened, deeply buried targets.
Specification
Acquisition status
Program Status Sustainment (no longer in production)
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