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Air Force

USAF Looks To Start Building Family Of Affordable Mass Missiles In September

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, June 9th, 2026

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USAF Looks To Start Building Family Of Affordable Mass Missiles In September

Pictured is a photo of CoAspire's Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile-Extended Range on display at the 2026 Sea-Air-Space expo (Photo by Cal Biesecker)

The U.S. Air Force's Family of Affordable Mass Missiles (FAMM) is to begin production in September, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach said on Tuesday. At a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee's defense panel, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), the subcommittee's ranking member, said that he is encouraged that the Extended Range Affordable Missile (ERAM) is "going into production" and asked Wilsbach what the service had learned from ERAM use in Ukraine and elsewhere and how FAMM…

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