Raytheon given $85 million contract to deliver Griffin A and B Block II/III missiles

The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida has given Raytheon a $85.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Griffin A and B Block II/III missiles.

USS Firebolt (PC-10) fires a BGM-176B Griffin missile in June 2015
By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Joshua Bryce Bruns [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

This information was released in a Pentagon contracts posting – Release No: CR-008-16 – on Jan. 13.

The Griffin A is an unpowered precision munition that can be dropped from a rear cargo door or a door-mounted launcher of an aircraft while the rocket-powered Griffin B can be employed as an air-to-surface or surface-to-surface missile.

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