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Navy Sets $30 Million Ceiling for Carrier Combat Drone
The service wants two prototypes that can survive catapult launches, arrested landings and Sea State 5 within a three-year certification sprint.
The company-funded YFQ-48A cut parts and weight to get Northrop back into an Air Force drone-wingman plan that already has two airframes in production.
The service wants two prototypes that can survive catapult launches, arrested landings and Sea State 5 within a three-year certification sprint.
The deal could add missile motor capacity, but every new producer still draws ammonium perchlorate from the same constrained domestic supply chain.
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.