Lockheed Martin was awarded $483m for Hellfire and JAGM production last year. If we assume half of that is for Hellfires at a unit cost of $117,000, that would make roughly 2,000 missiles. And this is already the third follow-on award.
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Also: “Between 1998-2018, the Defense Department procured over 71,500 Hellfire missiles at the cost of $7.2 billion.” That would be over 3,500 missiles per year – on average! So yes, it is absolutely possible that there will be 3,000 missiles extra in three years. Actually there will be even more.
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