The Air Force has awarded Raytheon a $1.15 billion missile contract

A contract for AIM-120 D-3 and C-8 AMRAAM missiles worth $1.15 billion was given to RTX. This is the largest AMRAAM missile contract to date, as well as the fifth production batch of the highly upgraded missiles produced under the Form, Fit, Function Refresh (F3R) programme, which improves both the missile’s hardware and enables for Agile software changes.

“We recognise that AMRAAM is the most advanced, combat-proven missile, and we owe it to the warfighters to ensure that they have the technology they need when they need it,” said Paul Ferraro, Raytheon’s president of Air Power. “With this contract, AMRAAM continues its proud legacy with greater power and precision than ever before, whether air-to-air or surface-to-air.”

The contract not only provides missiles to the US Air Force and Navy, but it also provides AMRAAM all-up-rounds and/or spares to 18 nations, including Ukraine, extending the production line for both the US and Allied allies.

Engineers employed model-based systems engineering projects and other digital technologies in the F3R programme to upgrade several circuit cards and other hardware in the missile’s guidance section, as well as to re-host legacy software in the AIM-120 D-3 and AIM-120 C-8 AMRAAMs.