The Pentagon's newest air-to-ground-missile is about to get a long range upgrade, allowing it to strike targets from farther away than ever before.

The JASSM-XR cruise-missile will give U.S. tactical aircraft the ability to strike targets more than a thousand miles away. To give you an idea of this kind of reach, it means a bomber circling Manhattan could strike targets as away as Minneapolis, Minnesota or Jacksonville, Florida with pinpoint accuracy.