General James Hecker, the U.S. Air Force's top officer in Europe, confirmed last week that the Ukrainian Air Force can now employ precision-guided Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range bombs, or JDAM-ERs, against Russian forces – which experts say is a big problem for Putin and his soldiers.

JDAMs, basically, are precision-guided bombs that fly themselves to the target, as opposed to drop bombs, which must be, well, dropped from above the target.

From The War Zone:

Even a small number of JDAM-ERs will present new challenges for Russian forces. As The War Zone has noted in the past, a standard JDAM provides a precision-guided fire-and-forget weapon that an aircraft can launch at fixed targets in any weather and then immediately turn away to put distance between it and enemy defenses. The INS portion of the guidance package means that the bomb should retain a significant degree of accuracy even if the GPS signal is jammed or otherwise lost. The JDAM-ER's wing kit then expands the reach of the weapon and helps further improve survivability.

General Hecker (sweet name btw) disclosed that the U.S. has begun providing these weapons to Ukraine just in the past four weeks.

Below is some recent battlefield footage shared by The War Zone, who says they can't say for certain that these explosions are from JDAMs ... but that they sure look like it.