Guided Weapons: Procurement

(asked on 22nd April 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department last signed new contracts for (a) AMRAAM, (b) ASRAAM, (c) CAMM, (d) Javelin, (e) NLAW, (f) Tomahawk and (g) Aster missiles.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
This question was answered on 14th May 2024

The below table contains the dates of when new contracts were last signed for each of the munition type requested. It does not contain subsequent contract amendments or renewals.

Weapons

Last signed new contracts

AMRAAM

December 2021

ASRAAM

December 2023

CAMM

March 2021

Javelin

April 2023

NLAW

December 2022

Tomahawk

June 2022

Aster missiles

August 1999

Notes:

  1. Javelin and Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) are procured through Foreign Military Sales, a government to government agreement directly between the UK MOD and the US Government.

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