The U.S. Department of Defense is requesting an unprecedented number of advanced Tomahawk missiles in its proposed budget. The manufacturer Raytheon produces those at its Tucson factory.
Raytheon boasts that the Tomahawk cruise missile can easily hit targets more than a thousand miles away, and can change course midflight. But that tech means they are slow to build.
The proposed $1.5 trillion Department of Defense budget asks for 785 new missiles, compared to only 55 a year ago. That new request would likely take years to produce if approved by Congress and would cost close to $6 billion.
Critics have said that the U.S. military has depleted stockpiles of critical munitions, like the Tomahawk, in its war with Iran.
The New York Times reported late last month that the U.S. used over a thousand Tomahawks since the start of the war.
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