JPADS systems use GPS, a modular autonomous guidance unit, or MAGU, a parachute, and electric motors to guide supply deliveries within 150 meters of their impact points. The systems were born out of ...

The U.S. Army is testing a high-tech airdrop system that uses a sophisticated video navigation system to locate its target. The system could prove invaluable for airdrops in difficult terrain and ...

What does the phrase "if it fits it ships" mean to most people? For the 647th Quartermaster (Corps Aerial Delivery) Company, "if it fits it ships" describes the precision capability behind the Joint ...

MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. — The Joint Precision Air Drop System, or JPADS, is one of more than 250 weapons systems being experimented with during Project Convergence 2022. PC22 is bringing ...

The U.S. Army’s Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) has developed a new capability with a navigation alternative to GPS. In recent tests, JPADS were dropped from planes, and immediately determined ...

WASHINGTON — The Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) is meant to land cargo exactly where it needs to go. But how would Tobyhanna Army Depot deliver an upgraded component of the systems where they ...

Military cargo-drops to places like forward operating bases in Afghanistan need to go off perfectly. When they don’t, soliders have to expose themselves to dangerous fire to retrieve the package that ...

May 22, 2014: The U.S. Army recently ordered another 110 JPADSs (Joint Precision Airdrop System), which cost $273,000 each. JPADS kits are attached to pallets of supplies to provide GPS and mechanical ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Joint Precision Air Drop System, known as JPADS, uses GPS and three-dimensional terrain mapping to steer a parafoil in combat situations where ...

LAS VEGAS — On June 16, 82nd Sustainment Brigade Soldiers and Airmen with the 820th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (Red Horse) participated in a joint Army/Air ...

Mountainous terrain and enemy threats in Afghanistan have pushed the Air Force to develop a kite-like GPS-guided system to deliver cargo to deployed troops, a commander told a House panel on Thursday.