The Pentagon awarded $7.8 billion in contracts to Lockheed Martin and RTX Corporation at the end of July to produce thousands of new missiles for the Air Force and Navy, as well as a host of international allies.

The contracts include $3.5 billion to RTX Corporation for the AMRAAM Air-to-Air missile, reported to be the largest contract in the history of the AMRAAM missile program. The contract also includes telemetry systems and engineering support products.

The AMRAAM is a flexible, powerful and lightweight missile that can be equipped by a wide breadth of warplanes for air-to-air combat strikes. It can also be used as a ground-launch weapon for air defense. It excels at a wide variety of altitudes and can easily intercept elusive targets.

The AMRAAM missiles will be supplied — not

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