OCT 2, 2026
The US Navy on Oct. 1, 2026 awarded RTX's Raytheon unit a multiyear contract worth up to $24.4 billion for Standard Missile-6 interceptors, a five-year deal with two option years whose quantities remain undisclosed and whose funding Congress has yet to appropriate.
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OCT 2, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on October 1, 2026 that Ukraine's domestically developed FP-7 tactical ballistic missile, built by Fire Point, had been used in combat for the first time, without disclosing the target or location; the claim has not been independently verified.
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OCT 1, 2026·Explainer
The Pentagon's AMRAAM contract of up to $20.7 billion, announced on September 28, 2026, expands output of a missile whose rocket burns early and then coasts; Europe's Meteor uses a throttleable ramjet that MBDA says thrusts until intercept.
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