[2] The SLAM was designed to provide all-weather, day and night, precision attack capabilities against stationary high-value targets[1] as well as ships in port.

[5] Developed in 48 months, three SLAMs were successfully employed during the Persian Gulf War, when they were used to strike Iraqi targets.

These strikes, made exclusively by the few A-6E SWIP Intruders assigned to VA-75 on the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67),[5] were before official operational testing of the new missile had begun.

[7] The strike itself was also successful in that it enabled the Intruder to attack without entering the Missile Engagement Zone of Al-Qa'im.

[1] An F/A-18C (N) Hornet from VFA-151^ in February 1999 tested the SLAM's special GPS only guidance mode against a simulated SA-10 radar van in a target complex located on San Nicolas Island.