


A seven-year award to Raytheon converts an earlier production framework into a firm procurement vehicle, but the stated increase from about 60 missiles a year to more than 1,000 remains a future industrial objective rather than an immediate delivery rate.

Reports that the United States used most of its available long-range battlefield missiles during the Iran war have turned a successful strike campaign into a procurement and readiness question for the Pentagon and its allies. The United States’ reported use…
