Lockheed Martin lands $5 billion contract for US Army precision strike missile

Lockheed Martin announced on Monday that the US military has granted it a $ 5 billion contract to produce a long -range strike missile from the next generation.

The value of the contract is up to $ 4.94 billion and Lockheed Martin will see accurate strikes of the army (PRSM), which is seen as a successor to the army’s tactical missile (ATACM).

The missiles are compatible with the HIMARS and the multi -missile system, the platforms used by the army and the two luggage along with a number of US allies who have acquired or intended these systems.

“Lockheed Martin is committed to providing this deterrent ability to support the army’s vision of deadly and flexible power,” said Caroline Orzishovsky, deputy of the PPECISION Fires launcher in Lockheed Martin. “Our team is still focusing on rapidly and volume production, ensuring the fighter gets this critical ability to maintain peace through strength.”

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HIMARS from Lockheed Martin shoots the PRSM missile during the 2019 US Army Airlines test. (With the permission of the US Army, Lockheed Martin / Fox News)

According to Lockheed, PRSM has a range of more than 499 km, or 310 miles, and has been designed with an open architecture that allows improving the ability to achieve longer ranges.

The company has worked on many PRSM variables, including versions designed as anti -ship missiles, long -range variables and to carry different explosive ammunition.

The Army’s PRSM contract was organized as an unspecified delivery, an unlimited amount contract, which is designed to provide flexibility when the exact schedule or delivery is unknown.

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PRSM during a stretched launch at Vandenberg, space base in October 2021. (With the permission of the US Army, Lockheed Martin / Fox News)

Although the PRSM contract is dedicated to the army, the US Marine Corps as well as the Australian army indicated that they intend to get PRSM.

Lockheed Martin, who gets a Missile Missile Precision Strike contract, comes after he missed the NGAD air hegemony fighter contract (NGAD), whose value is estimated at more than $ 20 billion and was granted to Boeing to replace the F-22 RAPTOR from Lockheed.

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