Lockheed Martin has broken ground on a factory expansion in Troy, Alabama, that will triple the space it uses to build the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, the U.S. Air Force’s first hypersonic missile to enter production. The company held the groundbreaking for the expansion of its Building P-20 on Oct. 27, the day after […]

The U.S. Air Force has put its first hypersonic weapon into production, awarding Lockheed Martin a $694 million contract on Sept. 29 to build and field the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, a missile the service had planned to abandon just three years ago, the Department of the Air Force announced on Oct. […]