USA – Raytheon wins $2B contract for new nuclear cruise missile (Valerie Insinna, Defense News)

July 7, 2021

Raytheon Technologies will get up to $2 billion to develop the U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Standoff Weapon system, a new nuclear-capable, air-launched cruise missile that will be carried by B-52 and B-21 bombers.

Raytheon wins $2B contract for new nuclear cruise missile (defensenews.com)

An unarmed AGM-86B air-launched cruise missile is released from a B-52H Stratofortress over the Utah Test and Training Range during a nuclear weapons system evaluation sortie on Sept. 22, 2014. (Staff Sgt. Roidan Carlson/U.S. Air Force)

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USA – Raytheon wins $2B contract for new nuclear cruise missile (Valerie Insinna, Defense News)

An unarmed AGM-86B air-launched cruise missile is released from a B-52H Stratofortress over the Utah Test and Training Range during a nuclear weapons system evaluation sortie on Sept. 22, 2014. (Staff Sgt. Roidan Carlson/U.S. Air Force)

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