Radar-guided air-to-air missile (RTX/Raytheon)
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The AIM-120 AMRAAM is a radar-guided, beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile made by Raytheon, part of RTX. Israel buys it through U.S. Foreign Military Sales: on 13 August 2024, ten months into the Gaza genocide, the State Department approved 30 AIM-120C-8 missiles for Israel at an estimated $102.5M, with RTX in Tucson as principal contractor and the missiles to come from new production. On 28 September 2026, weeks after the US-Israeli war on Iran, RTX announced a $20.7B multi-year contract to raise AMRAAM output to 'record-setting levels'. This map shows AMRAAM as procurement only: we have found no evidence tying Israeli AMRAAM use to a specific strike in Gaza, Lebanon or Iran. Its role is to give U.S. and Israeli warplanes control of the air, which lets them bomb freely.
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Award ID (PIID): FA865925CB003 | Award type: DEFINITIVE CONTRACT | Recipient: RAYTHEON COMPANY | Awarding agency: Department of Defense / Department of the Air Force | Description: ADVANCED MEDIUM RANGE AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE (AMRAAM)LOTS 39-40 | Date signed: 2025-07-31 | Total obligation: $3,381,835,581.16; base and all options value: $3,509,444,067.00
Raytheon, Division of Raytheon Technologies Corp., Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a not-to-exceed $3,500,000,000 firm-fixed-price incentive, undefinitized contract action for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) Production Lots 39 and 40.
Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, will accelerate production of AMRAAM® missiles to record-setting levels under the terms of a five-year multi-year contract
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