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The $22.9 Billion Tomahawk Contract Runs Into an 18-Month Clock
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The $22.9 Billion Tomahawk Contract Runs Into an 18-Month Clock

The Navy's $22.9 billion, seven-year Tomahawk award gives Raytheon the certainty to build toward 1,000 missiles a year. It does not buy back the 1,000-plus fired at Iran: rocket-motor lead times set the clock, while Ukraine's Fire Point builds 100 cheaper cruise missiles a month.

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Divergent's New Printer Targets the Tomahawk Bottleneck

Divergent says a fleet of in-house metal printers can turn out tens of thousands of missile airframes a year, and Breaking Defense reports it is already a second source for the Tomahawk. Whether that reaches the fleet depends on numbers the company has not shown.