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CMMT Offering by Lockheed Martin to Serve as Subsonic Cruise Missile, Drone or Sensor

Frank Wolfe

Monday, March 3rd, 2025

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CMMT Offering by Lockheed Martin to Serve as Subsonic Cruise Missile, Drone or Sensor

Pictured is a Lockheed Martin schematic of future CMMT launches from airlifters.

AURORA, Colo.--Lockheed Martin [LMT] is developing the Common Multi-Mission Truck System (CMMT--"comet")--what could serve as a drone, sensor, or a high-subsonic cruise missile that is to cost $150,000 per unit or less and to be a modular weapon that military forces can alter on the go for different missions from cargo planes, fighters, and bombers at ranges up to 1,000 miles, a company official said on Monday during a briefing at the Air and Space Forces Association's Warfare Symposium here.…

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