PROCUREMENT: The Navy’s F-35 Has a New Weapon (To Strike Deep Into Enemy Territory).

“With JSOW-C in its internal weapons bay, the Navy’s F-35C can now eliminate the toughest ground targets from significant standoff ranges,” Mike Jarrett, vice president of Raytheon Air Warfare Systems, said. “JSOW’s advanced warhead and smart fuse provide fighter pilots with plenty of flexibility against hard and soft targets — plus, it has many programmable effects.”

The JSOW — which integrates a dual-charge BROACH warhead with a WDU-44 shaped augmenting warhead and a WDU-45 follow through bomb — is particularly adept at cracking open high value hardened targets.

Carriers aren’t obsolete yet.