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Pentagon

Air-to-Air Missiles and Energetics for Munitions Two Possible Areas for Increasing Capacity

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, September 27th, 2022

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Air-to-Air Missiles and Energetics for Munitions Two Possible Areas for Increasing Capacity

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

Ukraine's demands for weapons since Russia's Feb. 24 assault may point to the need for the United States and its allies to invest in diverse production lines and ramping up capacity for producing air-to-air missiles and energetics for munitions, a U.S. Air Force official said on Sept. 27 at the ComDef 2022 conference in Arlington, Va. "When we're in negotiations for production, our historic tendencies for the last 30 years that I've been involved in this is to only pay…

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