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Navy's $24.4 Billion SM-6 Award Is Raytheon's Third $20 Billion Missile Deal Since August

The five-year order backs a production target above 500 SM-6s a year, but the Pentagon has not said how many missiles it buys and Congress has not yet funded it.

Oct 5, 2026 · 4 min read

UkrainePro

Zelensky's Patriot License Points to a 2028 Raytheon GEM-T Line

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.

Sep 28, 2026

USA

Pratt & Whitney Licenses Hermeus to Build the F100 Fighter Engine

Pratt & Whitney licensed Hermeus on Sept. 15 to build F100-PW-229 fighter engines. Hermeus must first get its builds accepted by Pratt, and no rate or delivery date was disclosed.

Sep 17, 2026

USA

Covenant exits stealth with a cruise missile priced for volume

Anthem pairs a heavy payload with commercial parts, four-deep supplier lines and three factories, a manufacturing answer to thin Western missile stocks.

Sep 9, 2026

USAPro

The Pentagon Gave Missile Makers 21 Days. Only Some of Them Could Answer.

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.

Sep 1, 2026

USA

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.

Aug 17, 2026

USA

Trump Didn't Change His Mind on Patriots. America Ran Out.

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.

Aug 4, 2026

UkrainePro

Two Iskanders Hit an Arms Expo Near Kyiv. Raytheon Said Yes to Ukraine the Night Before.

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.

Jul 24, 2026

Ukraine

Trump Hands Kyiv the Patriot License. Then He Offers to Buy Ukraine's Drones.

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.

Jul 8, 2026

USAPro

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.

Jun 24, 2026

USA

MDA Space buys RTX's Blue Canyon for $620M to break into US defense space

Canada's MDA gets a cleared US smallsat manufacturer, two Denver plants and a $3.5 billion defense pipeline for $620 million in cash.

Jun 23, 2026