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USAF Examining Lower Cost Counter-Air Missile Program With 1,000-3,500 Annual Full-Rate Production

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, November 13th, 2025

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USAF Examining Lower Cost Counter-Air Missile Program With 1,000-3,500 Annual Full-Rate Production

Pictured is a Leidos photo of a ramp launch of the company's Small Cruise Missile from an Air Force Special Operations Command AC-130J.

The stand-in strike division of Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's armament directorate (AFLCMC/EBI) at Eglin AFB, Fla., is surveying companies to help determine requirements and an acquisition strategy for a possible counter-air missile with a unit cost below $500,000. The fiscal 2025 reconciliation law "identified a need...for the development, procurement, and integration of a low-cost counter-air capability as a future class of the Affordable Mass Munitions portfolio," AFLCMC/EBI said in a business notice for the newly conceived Counter-Air Missile…

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