Hadrian will bring a 24-machine automated machining cell into Lockheed Martin's Grand Prairie missile parts plant in early 2027 under a seven-year agreement. Work starts on PAC-3 and PrSM parts; neither company disclosed the value or the added output.
Lockheed is reserving capacity at Avio USA's new Virginia plant to loosen a two-supplier solid rocket motor market, but the motors still have to qualify and the plant is not scheduled to build any until 2029.
Riyadh is investigating why its air defenses failed after Houthi missiles killed at least 13 at King Khalid airport. Officials say the kingdom is short of interceptors, and the American stocks that would resupply it are depleted.
Lockheed showed a Patriot successor due in 2031 on the day Poland said its own PAC-3 deliveries will slip. Ukraine's ballistic defense this winter rests on missiles allies already hold.
Lockheed Martin led Fortem's $50 million Series B to expand DroneHunter production in Utah and tie Fortem's radars and interceptors into its Sanctum counter-drone software. The Army's new counter-drone IDIQ does not name Fortem.
The likely PAC-2 route avoids PAC-3's seeker constraint, but offers weaker ballistic defense from a European production base Germany hosts and Poland wants.
A new seeker turns existing HIMARS units into land-based anti-ship forces, but the open-quantity $1.2 billion award arrives with baseline PrSM stocks still depleted.
The next funding phase moves Avalon Holographics toward an OLED flat panel, the cost cut that decides whether its mission-planning display ever leaves the operations center.
The Pentagon inspector general made the munitions shortfall official and named industrial bottlenecks as the constraint. Ukraine's winter air defense now rests on allied stock swaps and its own cheap interceptors.
Paveway is a US-origin family of guidance kits that converts general-purpose and penetrator bombs into laser-guided or dual-mode laser/GPS precision weapons.
The UGM-133A Trident II D5 is the submarine-launched ballistic missile at the core of the United States and United Kingdom sea-based nuclear deterrents.
The AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missile is Lockheed Martin's dual-mode successor to Hellfire, combining laser and millimetre-wave guidance for precision strikes in obscured and adverse-weather conditions.
The C-130J Super Hercules is the current-production version of the long-running Hercules family, combining four turboprop engines, short-field tactical airlift performance and a global support base.
Anthem pairs a heavy payload with commercial parts, four-deep supplier lines and three factories, a manufacturing answer to thin Western missile stocks.
Kyiv wants several billion euros of the EU's 90 billion euro support loan spent on US-built PAC-3 interceptors, a purchase the loan's own origin rule was written to discourage.
The AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile is a classified US long-range air-to-air weapon designed to replace the AIM-120 AMRAAM while retaining a form factor compatible with internal fighter weapon bays.
The AGM-158C LRASM is a low-observable, air-launched anti-ship cruise missile designed to identify and attack warships autonomously in contested electronic environments.
GMLRS is the 227 mm precision-guided rocket fired by HIMARS and M270 launchers, combining GPS-aided inertial guidance with ranges from 70 km to more than 150 km.
The service wants two prototypes that can survive catapult launches, arrested landings and Sea State 5 within a three-year certification sprint.
A 21-day Pentagon ultimatum and the Aug. 31 Patriot/THAAD framework deals reveal the real constraint is funded orders and sub-tier suppliers, not factory space, opening room for a purpose-built entrant like Castelion.
Greece and Sweden committed €7.3 billion to new air defense on Monday, one day before EU ministers meet to ask Athens for the Patriot interceptors it already owns.
Lockheed Martin bolted a JAGM launcher to the bow of a Saildrone Surveyor and the Navy's own fire control pulled the trigger at RIMPAC. The demonstration produced two shots and no order.
The Aug. 20 barrage on Kyiv killed at least 16 and exposed the gap between Russia's ballistic missile salvos and the Patriot interceptor production needed to stop them.
Ukrainian operators lose the radio link before impact and the strike lands anyway. Over Edwards Air Force Base, an AI agent flew 27 intercepts on a passive infrared feed. Both ends of the price curve are solving the same problem.
Trump promised Kyiv a licence to build Patriot missiles, then took it back. The reason sits in a depleted US arsenal and a single Alabama factory, not in the president's mood.
Ukraine's $2,000 interceptor drones stop nine in ten Shaheds. Its ballistic defense depends on a Lockheed line building 52 interceptors a month, and Trump has withdrawn the licence that was Kyiv's way around it.
The M270 MLRS is a tracked, armored rocket-artillery launcher carrying two interchangeable ammunition pods for guided rockets and longer-range strike missiles.
Ukraine's mobile fire units are engaging cruise missiles for lack of Patriot interceptors. Hours later, the US Army locked in a seven-year PAC-3 buy worth up to $58.6 billion.
The Pentagon signed seven-year framework deals with L3Harris to nearly triple PAC-3 MSE and quadruple THAAD propulsion output, three days after interceptor-stockpile warnings paused the Iran campaign.
Two Russian ballistic missiles hit a defense-industry expo near Kyiv, killing at least 10, a day after Zelensky and Raytheon agreed to co-produce Patriot interceptors. The strike is the risk statement for Ukraine's air-defense industrial plan.
Lockheed Martin's GRIZZLY is a containerized missile launcher, tested in June 2026 firing a JAGM to intercept a Group 3 attack drone at Yuma, that fuses Lockheed's Sanctum battle-management software and Fortem R-40 radars into one counter-drone kill chain.
Trump granted Ukraine a license to build Patriot interceptors and said the US would buy Ukrainian drones, while Germany signed to produce Kyiv's Bars missile-drone. In one Ankara afternoon, the four-year one-way arms pipeline became two-way trade.
Lockheed and Rheinmetall will build ATACMS at Unterlüß, the first production line outside the US. The same summit gave the Patriot interceptors Kyiv is dying without only a repair shop.
An Iran war that burned through American missile-defense stockpiles is reshaping Pentagon procurement, starting with a contract to quadruple THAAD interceptor production.
Ukrainian intelligence says Moscow is burning through its S-300 interceptors faster than it can replace them, and the same arithmetic now drives Ukraine and its partners toward a cheaper interceptor.
America's premier low-observable air-launched standoff cruise missile, available in short-, extended- and extreme-range variants, and the weapon that bore the heaviest consumption burden of the 2026 Iran campaign.
America's next-generation tactical ballistic missile — a HIMARS/MLRS-fired deep-strike weapon that doubles ATACMS reach, adds anti-ship capability, and made its combat debut against Iran in 2026.
Lockheed Martin is promising France HIMARS launchers in 2028, ahead of the country's own long-range fires candidates, weeks before Paris picks its LRU replacement.
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense — a wheeled, hit-to-kill interceptor system that destroys short- and medium-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase, both inside and just above the atmosphere.
The United States' wheeled, C-130-transportable precision rocket artillery system — battlefield-proven in Ukraine and known as the "sniper of artillery," firing GMLRS, ATACMS, and the future PrSM.
The United States' primary medium-lift utility helicopter since 1979, the UH-60 Black Hawk serves in air assault, MEDEVAC, special operations, and cargo roles across dozens of operators worldwide.
The MGM-140 ATACMS — a HIMARS/MLRS-launched short-range ballistic missile, fielded since Desert Storm and the backbone of US deep-strike fires — now a critical enabler in Ukraine’s long-range campaign.
Lockheed says the Yuma shot paired Sanctum software, Fortem R-40 radars and a containerized launcher into one counter-drone kill chain.