The US Air Force is seeking manufacturers for more than 1,000 new air-launched cruise missiles intended for Ukraine. As the Kyiv Post reports, citing the Air Force Times, the Air Force published a new market survey on Tuesday, 3 November, in which companies are to set out their manufacturing capabilities for the Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM).
The survey on the US government’s procurement platform, SAM.gov, sets a response deadline of 19 November. The first of the more than 1,000 missiles are to be delivered no later than three months after the contract is awarded, with all deliveries completed within 15 months.
According to the Kyiv Post, the missile is to weigh around 227 kilograms, fly more than 460 kilometres and be faster than Mach 0.6. The deviation from the target is to be at most 10 metres at the end of the flight, even under electronic jamming or disrupted GPS signals. The warhead is to have fragmentation and blast effects and only limited penetration.
The programme is part of the Pentagon’s efforts to develop weapons more cheaply and in shorter timeframes. In 2024, the Air Force awarded contracts for the development of ERAM prototypes to the two smaller defence firms Zone 5 Technologies and CoAspire. In January 2026, a test with a live warhead followed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Whether Ukraine is already using ERAM missiles in combat does not emerge from the reports. In June 2026, Ukrainian media reported that Kyiv might already have used the AGM-188A Rusty Dagger variant in an attack on a semiconductor plant in Russia’s Voronezh region. According to the Kyiv Post, there is no independent confirmation of this.
