The U.S. military, scrambling to rebuild depleted <a href="https://todaytrendnews7.com/spacex-stock-volatility-what-to-do-next-if-you-own-shares/” title=”SpaceX stock volatility: What to do next if you own shares”>stocks of high-tech weaponry, on Monday said it had awarded RTX unit Raytheon a $22.9 billion contract to dramatically boost the output of Tomahawk missiles
The U.S. has supplied large amounts of arms to allies while also using munitions in the Iran conflict, raising concerns about inventories of air defense and precision-guided weapons
“We called on industry to rapidly scale up munitions output, and RTX is delivering,” Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao said in an X post. “This landmark Tomahawk contract ensures our warfighters continue to have the lethal firepower they need.”
In a separate statement, Raytheon said the contract would run for seven years and would allow annual Tomahawk production to increase to more than 1,000 missiles. The company currently makes just 60 a year
The sea-launched Tomahawk, a mainstay of the Navy’s surface fleet, provides long-range precision strike capability against land targets from ships and submarines
The formal announcement firms up a framework agreement that the U.S. military and Raytheon signed in February
The administration of President Donald Trump is brokering multi-year deals with the biggest U.S. defense contractors, giving the companies confidence to invest billions of dollars in new facilities and equipment
Earlier this month, the military signed deals to ramp up production of Patriot and THAAD interceptor missile parts
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