Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM)
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Navy/USMC
RIMPAC 2024 Featured Sinking Exercises To Test New Naval Weapons
The Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 exercise featured several long-planned live-fire sinking exercises (SINKEXs) this month, sinking two decommissioned U.S. Navy ships. The decommissioned Austin-class USS Dubuque (LPD-8) amphibious […]
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Air Force
Lockheed Martin in ‘Late Stage Negotiations’ With Company to Create Solid Rocket Motor Provider
Lockheed Martin [LMT] is pursuing the creation of a provider of solid rocket motors beyond the two main suppliers–Northrop Grumman [NOC] through its 2018 buy of Orbital ATK and L3Harris [LHX] […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Incorporation of CL-20 on Three Munitions Proposed by HASC Panel
The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) tactical air and land forces panel would require DoD to begin a pilot program for the incorporation of the CL-20 explosive on three munitions […]
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Air Force
Requested USAF Multi-Year Procurements for JASSM, LRASM, AMRAAM ‘Just a Start,’ Brown Says
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown suggested on June 7 that the Air Force’s fiscal 2024 request for multi-year procurements (MYPs) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] […]
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Air Force
USAF Awards $1.2 Billion to Lockheed Martin for JASSM and LRASM
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] nearly $1.2 billion in contracts for the AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) and the AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile. Lockheed Martin […]
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Air Force
$1.5 Billion Requested Increase for USAF Munitions to Aid Ramp Up of JATM
The U.S. Air Force is moving toward procuring the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM), Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on […]
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Air Force
Missiles, Not Ammo, Account for DoD Requested Munitions Increase in Fiscal 2024
DoD officials have said that the Pentagon’s fiscal 2024 munitions budget of $30.6 billion–a 24 percent increase over last year’s request of $24.7 billion–stems from the Pentagon’s focus on the […]
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Weapons
U.S. Expends Most Long-Range Standoff Munitions in Weeks in CSIS Wargames of Hypothetical Conflict with China
Three weeks of a war with China would expend or exceed all or nearly all of the U.S. military’s inventory of long-range standoff munitions, according to recent wargames by the […]
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Air Force
USAF Assessing Munitions Inventory and Future Needs
The U.S. Air Force is assessing its inventory of munitions and future needs for high-end conflicts in which the service plans to use the Joint All Domain Command and Control […]
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