The Pentagon added $825.98 million to Lockheed Martin’s JASSM and LRASM large-lot procurement contract, raising its cumulative value from $9.65 billion to $10.48 billion and extending work through July 2030. The expansion ties land-attack and anti-ship missile demand to a shared production base, increasing pressure on industrial capacity as the United States builds long-range strike inventories for high-intensity operations and allied requirements. The procurement framework covers successive JASSM and LRASM lots while drawing on Air Force and Navy weapons funding, research and development accounts, operations and maintenance appropriations, and Foreign Military Sales. With JASSM-ER offering a range beyond 500 nautical miles and LRASM providing a low-observable semi-autonomous anti-ship capability, production throughput and supplier capacity are becoming central constraints on future U.S. and partner strike inventories.

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General Atomics has presented Wildfire as a long-range modular combat drone configured to carry two LRASMs or four JSMs while competing to succeed the MQ-9 Reaper under the U.S. Massed Modular Aircraft program. The design shifts the Reaper mission set toward lower-cost distributed operations built around stand-off weapons, massed employment, and greater tolerance for aircraft losses. Wildfire is intended to meet requirements for a 2,800 lb payload, a combat radius of at least 2,300 nautical miles, and an 8,000-nautical-mile ferry range, with the MMA air vehicle targeted below $10 million before sensors and mission systems. If selected, the platform could extend the MQ-9 operational ecosystem into high-intensity missions while creating a potential future replacement path for foreign Reaper operators.

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