Скачать или смотреть UNUSUAL! Türkey shows off fighter jet armed with rarely seen loadout

Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence also released an image on Mar. 20, 2025, showing an F-16D Block 50+ from the 181st Fleet Command carrying a rarely seen loadout. In fact, the jet was carrying two AGM-84-K-1 SLAM-ERs under the wings, two live AIM-120 AMRAAMs on the wingtips, an ASELPOD targeting pod, and three external fuel tanks on the wings and the centerline.

Ankara acquired the SLAM-ER (Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response) in 2006 under an FMS (Foreign Military Sales) program, and conducted separation tests from TuAF F-16s between 2011 and 2012. Made by Boeing, the weapon is a highly adaptable day/night, all-weather, over-the-horizon precision strike missile.

According to some reports, the SOM family of weapons might replace in future both the SLAM-ER and the AGM-142 Popeye, the latter used by the F-4 and expected to be retired before 2030

.The AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response) is an advanced stand off precision-guided, air-launched cruise missile produced by Boeing Defense, Space & Security for the United States Armed Forces and their allies. Developed from the AGM-84E SLAM (Standoff Land Attack Missile, itself developed by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems from the McDonnell Douglas Harpoon anti-ship missile), the SLAM-ER is capable of attacking land and sea targets medium to long range (over 155 nautical miles/270 km maximum).[7] The SLAM-ER relies on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and infrared imaging for its navigation and control, and it can strike both moving and stationary targets.

The SLAM-ER can be remotely controlled while in flight, and it can be redirected to another target after launch if the original target has already been destroyed, or is no longer considered to be dangerous (command guidance). The SLAM-ER is a very accurate weapon; as of 2009 it had the best circular error probable (CEP) of any missile used by the U.S. Navy.