On Wednesday, September 24, 2025, the U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense, signed an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth up to 578,628,020 USD with Raytheon Missile Defense (a division of RTX) in Tucson, Arizona, for multi-year deliveries of missiles for the FIM-92 Stinger man-portable air-defense systems.
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The fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover the procurement of Stinger missiles, auxiliary equipment, and support. One bid was received in the tender. The place of performance and funding will be determined for each task order. The anticipated completion date of the framework agreement is September 29, 2031.
The previous three production contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense for Stinger missiles were concluded on September 24 and 25, 2024, with a total value of 161.39 million USD.
Meanwhile, on August 19 of this year, the German company Diehl Defence announced that it had signed a Letter of Intent with Raytheon regarding cooperation in the production of key components for the Stinger, which means that in the future, co-production may take place in Europe as part of the German company’s development plan.
In the U.S. Army, where the Stinger returned to favor in 2018 and has since been ordered in successive batches, a replacement has been sought in parallel since 2020, with the process accelerated in 2022 (also due to large quantities being transferred to war-torn Ukraine). A potential successor could be the Next-Generation Short-Range Interceptor (NGSRI), which, according to RTX information from February 18 of this year, has undergone a series of ten successful tests (it is competing with Lockheed Martin for the order).
In the past year, Egypt and Morocco received approval to purchase Stinger missiles. At the same time, Germany ordered 506 FIM-92K Stinger Block I systems to replace the older version of the weapon, locally designated as Fliegerfaust 2, of which 500 systems were supplied to Ukraine.
Earlier, at the end of 2023, NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) received approval to acquire, among other items, 940 Stinger Reprogrammable Microprocessor missiles in a package worth up to 780 million USD. At that time, it was reported that the potential recipients of the order would be Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.