Blackbeard Mach 5 Hypersonic Missile Wins $90M to Scale 50 Units
The order funds engineering, logistics and manufacturing work as Blackbeard moves toward a Navy program of record and potential sales to allies.
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The US Navy’s New Blackbeard Mach 5 Hypersonic Missile Wins $900,000,000 Deal, Targets Just $500K Per Round
Castelion, a Torrance, California startup, aims to keep its Blackbeard hypersonic missile below $500,000 per round. A Lockheed Martin PAC-3 MSE interceptor costs more than $4 million and takes over two years from initial build to delivery after testing. The US Navy has awarded Castelion nearly $90 million to push Blackbeard toward Early Operational Capability, including 50 prototype rounds.
Why does the Navy need a missile that can be mass-produced? The contract covers the production of 50 missiles and the construction of a production facility capable of mass-producing Blackbeard, rather than as a limited experimental system. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing Army Recognition. The Navy has funded the missile's transition to operational capability. On August 25, 2026, the US Navy awarded Castelion Corp. a contract worth appr…
Blackbeard Mach 5 hypersonic missile wins $90M to scale 50 units
Castelion has secured an $89.99 million U.S. Navy order to move its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon toward Early Operational Capability. The California defense startup revealed Blackbeard publicly on August 20. Just days later, the Navy awarded funding for 50 Early Operational Capability weapons. The firm-fixed-price award signals a major shift for the program. Blackbeard must now prove it can move beyond flight testing and into repeatable p…
US Navy Awards Castelion $90M to Advance Blackbeard Hypersonic Weapon
The US Navy has awarded Castelion an $89.9M contract to advance the Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon toward Early Operational Capability (EOC) by 2028. The post US Navy Awards Castelion $90M for Blackbeard Hypersonic Weapon EOC appeared first on Naval News.
U.S. Navy awards Castelion $90 million for hypersonic weapon
The U.S. Navy awarded Castelion Corp. nearly $90 million to advance its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon toward Early Operational Capability, the company announced August 25. The order funds engineering, technical, logistics and manufacturing work supporting 50 early operational capability weapons and the missile’s transition to a formal Navy Program of Record. The contract also funds […]
Castelion Nabs Another $90 Million Navy Order To Fund First 50 Blackbeard Weapons
The Navy on Tuesday awarded hypersonic weapons developer Castelion another $90 million firm-fixed-price order to further develop and advance the Blackbeard hypersonic weapon system and the first 50 Early Operational […]
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