The American defense giant Lockheed Martin has two secret programs on which it will spend about 1.9 billion dollars, of which more than 410 million dollars on a project in the aeronautics sphere, as well as more than 1.4 billion dollars on a "secret munition", the creation of which is being carried out bycompany’s Missiles and Fire Control unit.
This information was reported by the president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, as reported by The Air and Space Forces Magazine. For obvious reasons, he does not provide any specifics on these "secret programs", but at the same time claims that in general the situation with financing in the above-mentioned unit should improve.
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He assured that the pricing of the next stages of these projects should be open and expressed expectations "to return to reasonable-type margins". He also emphasized that these projects were "something they will want", given his experience as a former US Air Force pilot.
As for what exactly is hidden behind the "secret" programs, if we talk about the first item, namely aeronautics, then with a high probability we are talking about an unnamed "advanced reconnaissance drone".
As for the munition, there is a version that we are talking about the successor to the AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile, namely the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM).
It was this missile that the US Department of Defense once called "priority number one" for both the Air Force and the Navy.
However, the program is being implemented with delays - at first it was said that it should enter service in 2022 or 2023. In the spring of 2023, the US Air Force reported that this project is proceeding according to schedule, but in 2024 there was no report about the start of full-scale production of this weapon. The US Air Force provides limited information on this project, but it is known that testing began in 2023.
Indicative of this project is the fact that the year before last, the US announced plans to sharply increase funding for the production of AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles.

This became an occasion to think about the future of the AIM-260 JATM missile in general, but, again, the US Air Force claimed that there were no problems with it, and the decision to produce the AIM-120 AMRAAM was related to the trend of increasing ammunition production in general.
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