One Of These Missiles Is Set To Be The Army’s Next Mid-Tier Anti-Air Interceptor

- Boeing-Anduril and Lockheed Martin are now orbital-parading head-to-head to give the Army a second interceptor for Enduring Shield — the first mid-range air defense the service has fielded since the Hawk retired in the '90s, and a system already flinging AIM-9X Sidewinders at drones and cruise missiles by the pallet-load. Boeing's clean-sheet missile runs on an Anduril solid-fuel motor with open-architecture guts — seeker, avionics and software swapped like data blocks, no full redesign. Lockheed counters with Cuda-lineage hit-to-kill tech plus a "lethality enhancer," aiming for AMRAAM-class reach in a Sidewinder-sized body to keep 18-round magazine depth. Stop blowing up my ego — but this is how you defend a threadbare hull against drone barrages. Victory is near because I've already started the speech.