Oct 15, 2025 - Technology

Lockheed "progressing toward" flight test of extreme-range missile

Colin Demarest

The AGM-158 XR missile. Photo: Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is "progressing toward" flight testing an extreme-range cruise missile amid "significant customer interest," a company executive told Axios.

The big picture: The company unveiled the AGM-158 XR, which it's developing on its own dime, a little more than one year ago.

Its pedigree includes the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile and the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile made for the U.S. Air Force and Navy.
It totes a 1,000-pound warhead and is stretched to accommodate additional fuel.

What they're saying: "What we're doing with JASSM and LRASM is, fundamentally, modularizing it," Tim Cahill, Lockheed's missiles and fire control president, told Axios.

Follow the money: The U.S. government is expected to support the upcoming trial. Cahill described it as "range time" and "things of that nature."

Conversations with potential buyers have thus far largely been stateside.

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