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Army Might Boost Hellfire Production By Thousands Of Missiles

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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