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USAF Requests $387 Million for ARRW Production

Frank Wolfe

Friday, June 27th, 2025

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USAF Requests $387 Million for ARRW Production

A 2nd Maintenance Group weapons standardization loading standardization crew chief tightens bolts to an ARRW prototype to a B-52H at Barksdale AFB, La. on Nov. 2, 2022 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force's fiscal 2026 budget request includes $387 million for production of Lockheed Martin's [LMT] AGM-183A hypersonic Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW). ARRW "quantities (price per unit) and support cost requirements are able to be discussed in an appropriately cleared forum," according to an Air Force procurement budget document. In May last year, during the last seven eight months of the Biden administration, the Air Force said that "there is no timeline established to make a production decision…

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