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Army Might Boost Hellfire Production By Thousands Of Missiles

By Marc Selinger

Friday, October 20th, 2017

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Army Might Boost Hellfire Production By Thousands Of Missiles

An Apache helicopter is armed with Hellfire missiles. (Army photo)

To meet warfighters’ growing demand for the AGM-114 Hellfire missile, the U.S. Army says it might increase production of the air-to-ground weapon by several thousand missiles a year.The Army asked prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] “earlier this year” to submit a proposal to boost production to up to 11,000 missiles a year starting in fiscal year 2019, said Dan O’Boyle, spokesman for the Army’s Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (AMCOM). If the 11,000 figure is achieved in FY 2019,…

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