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Air Force May More Than Triple JASSM/LRASM Buy Over FYDP

Air Force May More Than Triple JASSM/LRASM Buy Over FYDP
Pictured is a U.S. Air Force photo of personnel with the 8th Maintenance Group loading a Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile on an F-16 during the Beverly Pack 25-1 Exercise at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea on Jan. 14th last year.

The Air Force planned buy of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) family may nearly quadruple over the future years defense plan (FYDP) through fiscal 2031. The service’s fiscal 2027 FYDP contains more than $9.5 billion to buy 3,967 of the AGM-158B/D JASSMs–a unit cost of more than $2 million–and nearly $3.6 billion for 716 AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles, a unit cost of more than $4 million (Defense Daily, June 8). The long-range systems division…

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