{"id":22683507,"date":"2026-09-16T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/agm-190a-havoc-spear-afsoc-ac-130j-combat-africa-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:43:50","slug":"agm-190a-havoc-spear-afsoc-ac-130j-combat-africa-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/agm-190a-havoc-spear-afsoc-ac-130j-combat-africa-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"AGM-190A Havoc Spear: AFSOC Fires Its New Cruise Missile in Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>Somewhere over Africa this spring, a four-engine turboprop that first flew in 1954 rolled its ramp open and pushed a missile out the back. The missile fell clear, unfolded its wings, lit a small turbojet and flew away. Minutes later it was several hundred miles downrange, and a validated ground target was gone.<\/p>\r\n<p>That is the short version of what Air Force Special Operations Command confirmed on 14 September 2026, standing on the floor of the Air, Space &amp; Cyber conference at National Harbor, Maryland. The weapon is the AGM-190A Havoc Spear. It weighs about as much as a large refrigerator, costs a fraction of a Tomahawk, and it has now been fired twice in combat before it has formally finished development.<\/p>\r\n<p>The aircraft that launched it was an <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ac-130-gunship\/\">AC-130J Ghostrider<\/a> gunship &mdash; an airframe designed around the idea of orbiting a target at close range with a 105 mm howitzer sticking out of its side. It just became a standoff cruise-missile carrier.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Weapon:<\/strong> AGM-190A Havoc Spear (Leidos company name: Black Arrow)<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Class:<\/strong> Roughly 200-pound small cruise missile, modular payload<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Range:<\/strong> More than 400 nautical miles (about 740 km)<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Launch platform tested:<\/strong> AC-130J Ghostrider, launched from tubes off the cargo ramp<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Combat evaluation:<\/strong> Two missiles, two ground targets, spring 2026, US Africa Command area of responsibility<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Announced:<\/strong> 14 September 2026, by AFSOC at the AFA Air, Space &amp; Cyber conference<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Cost:<\/strong> About $600,000 per round in low-rate initial production; SOCOM bought 45 for $27.2 million in July 2026<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Tested in a War, Not on a Range<\/h2>\r\n<p>Weapons normally graduate the other way round. You shoot them at instrumented desert targets for years, you write the reports, and eventually somebody signs a piece of paper that lets a squadron carry one. Havoc Spear did it backwards.<\/p>\r\n<p>AFSOC partnered with US Africa Command and fired two AGM-190As at two separate validated ground targets inside AFRICOM&rsquo;s area of responsibility. The command has not said where, when exactly, or against whom. What it has said is that the missile was still in a test configuration when it went to war, and that it worked.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/agm-190a-havoc-spear-cruise-missile-launch-afsoc-combat-evaluation.jpg\" alt=\"Imagery released by AFSOC showing a Havoc Spear warhead impact on a container target array\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Imagery released by AFSOC alongside its 14 September 2026 Havoc Spear announcement. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The official language is dry. The implication is not: AFSOC is comfortable enough with the weapon to have put it in front of a live enemy while the paperwork was still open.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Havoc Spear&rsquo;s range and capabilities expands standoff options, giving commanders a versatile tool to neutralize threats without putting platforms or personnel in immediate danger. It&rsquo;s also not lost on us the value of being able to test a new weapon system in combat &mdash; and prove its success on the battlefield early on in the process.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Lt. Gen. Mike Conley<\/strong> &mdash; Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command, 14 September 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two Hundred Pounds, Four Hundred Miles<\/h2>\r\n<p>Havoc Spear is small. It sits in the 200-pound class, which puts it an order of magnitude below a Tomahawk and well below a JASSM. Public reference sources list a Pratt &amp; Whitney TJ150-7 turbojet as the powerplant; AFSOC has not confirmed the engine publicly.<\/p>\r\n<p>What matters is the number AFSOC will confirm. More than 400 nautical miles &mdash; roughly 740 kilometres &mdash; from a launch aircraft that does not have to go anywhere near the target. For a gunship community whose entire tactical identity has been built on loitering overhead in the dark, that is a different way of fighting.<\/p>\r\n<p>The launch method is deliberately unglamorous. The missiles go out in tubes off the AC-130&rsquo;s ramp. They can also be hung on pylons, or palletised and rolled out of the back of a cargo aircraft. The payload itself is modular, which is the part programme officers get excited about: the same airframe can carry different things to different problems.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XT_zA3ue3jw\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The video above covers the AC-130J Ghostrider and the upgrade path that produced today&rsquo;s gunship fleet &mdash; the aircraft that has now become the first Havoc Spear shooter.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From Black Arrow to AGM-190A<\/h2>\r\n<p>The weapon is a Leidos product, developed by the company&rsquo;s Dynetics arm and marketed as Black Arrow. It grew out of Leidos&rsquo; work on the GBU-69 Small Glide Munition, another compact weapon built for special operations aircraft.<\/p>\r\n<p>The timeline is unusually short by Pentagon standards. Development work began around 2021. In 2022 Leidos signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with US Special Operations Command and AFSOC &mdash; a mechanism that lets the government and a company iterate together without going through a conventional programme of record. A first guided flight test followed in October 2024. By May 2025 the missile had demonstrated its 400-nautical-mile range. In November 2025 it picked up the designation AGM-190A. Four years after the CRADA was signed, it was being shot in anger.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;To outpace our adversaries, we can&rsquo;t rely on traditional acquisition pipelines. AFSOC is eager to explore more agile, lesser-known pathways to modernization to deepen industry partnerships, leverage calculated risks, and rapidly deliver capabilities to our warfighters.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Col. Robert Johnston<\/strong> &mdash; Director of strategic plans, programs and requirements, AFSOC<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/ac-130j-ghostrider-air-refuelling-kc-135-afsoc.jpg\" alt=\"An AC-130J Ghostrider on the boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker over the US Central Command area of responsibility\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">An AC-130J Ghostrider takes fuel from an Arizona Air National Guard KC-135 over the US Central Command area of responsibility, 8 April 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo via Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Real Target Is the Price Tag<\/h2>\r\n<p>In July 2026 SOCOM awarded Leidos $27.2 million for 45 missiles. That works out at roughly $600,000 a round. AFSOC officials say that figure is a low-rate initial production number and expect it to fall by as much as two thirds once volume arrives.<\/p>\r\n<p>Even at $600,000, the arithmetic is the point. A single Tomahawk costs several times that. If you can build a weapon that flies 400 miles for the price of a small apartment, you can afford to fire a great many of them &mdash; and the Pentagon has spent the last three years discovering that magazine depth, not exquisite performance, is what runs out first.<\/p>\r\n<p>That is the logic behind the Air Force&rsquo;s Family of Affordable Mass Missiles effort. In July the Pentagon announced multiyear framework agreements covering Anduril&rsquo;s Barracuda, CoAspire&rsquo;s Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile and Zone 5 Technologies&rsquo; AGM-188 Rusty Dagger. Once those lines are running, the service could take delivery of up to 8,000 missiles a year, with budget projections pointing at as many as 28,000 over five years. AFSOC officials have suggested Havoc Spear could eventually be folded into that family.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;We work every day to disrupt the networks that have made Africa the epicenter of global terrorism. These successful operational assessments prove we will continue to bring the unique capabilities only the U.S. can provide in order to defend U.S. interests alongside our partners.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Gen. Dagvin Anderson<\/strong> &mdash; Commander, US Africa Command, 14 September 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What Happens Next<\/h2>\r\n<p>Most of the 45 missiles from the July contract will not be shot at anybody. AFSOC says the first of them arrives next autumn and that the tranche is mainly for further development &mdash; new platforms, new launch mechanisms. Which aircraft gets it next is, in Johnston&rsquo;s words, a matter of what is actually available, because the command is having to work around the operational tempo it is already running.<\/p>\r\n<p>The ambition is broader than special operations. AFSOC has said openly that it wants Havoc Spear on every type of special operations platform and every conventional platform it can manage, in multiple launch modes. A weapon that can be rolled out of a cargo ramp does not care much what is holding the ramp.<\/p>\r\n<p>The AC-130 has spent sixty years being the aircraft that arrives overhead and stays. It now has a way of hitting something four hundred miles away and never showing up at all.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: Air Force Special Operations Command release, 14 September 2026; Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine; DefenseScoop; FlightGlobal; Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is the AGM-190A Havoc Spear?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Havoc Spear is a small, low-cost cruise missile built by Leidos, which markets it as Black Arrow. It is a roughly 200-pound-class weapon with a modular payload and a range of more than 400 nautical miles. Air Force Special Operations Command declared it ready for broader operational use on 14 September 2026.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which aircraft fired the Havoc Spear in combat?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">An AC-130J Ghostrider gunship. AFSOC fired two AGM-190As during a combat evaluation in the spring of 2026 against two validated ground targets in the US Africa Command area of responsibility. The missiles were launched from tubes carried off the aircraft cargo ramp.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How far can the Havoc Spear fly?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">AFSOC and Leidos state a range of more than 400 nautical miles, about 740 kilometres. That range was demonstrated in testing in May 2025, roughly seven months after the first guided flight test in October 2024.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How much does a Havoc Spear cost?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">About $600,000 per round at present. US Special Operations Command awarded Leidos $27.2 million for 45 missiles in July 2026. AFSOC officials describe that as a low-rate initial production price and expect the unit cost to fall by as much as two thirds as production scales up.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Can Havoc Spear be launched from aircraft other than the AC-130J?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">That is the stated goal. The missile can be fired from launch tubes on a ramp, mounted on pylons, or palletised and dropped from a cargo aircraft. AFSOC has said it wants the weapon on every special operations and conventional platform it can manage, in multiple launch modes.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the Family of Affordable Mass Missiles?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">FAMM is a US Air Force effort to mass-produce cheaper air-to-ground missiles instead of relying solely on small numbers of expensive ones. In July 2026 the Pentagon announced framework agreements covering Anduril Barracuda, CoAspire RAACM and Zone 5 AGM-188 Rusty Dagger, with the potential to buy thousands of rounds a year.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why does the name Havoc Spear differ from Black Arrow?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Black Arrow is the manufacturer name used by Leidos during development. Havoc Spear is the name the US Air Force gave the weapon when it entered service nomenclature, alongside the formal designation AGM-190A assigned in November 2025.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is the AGM-190A Havoc Spear?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Havoc Spear is a small, low-cost cruise missile built by Leidos, which markets it as Black Arrow. It is a roughly 200-pound-class weapon with a modular payload and a range of more than 400 nautical miles. Air Force Special Operations Command declared it ready for broader operational use on 14 September 2026.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Which aircraft fired the Havoc Spear in combat?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"An AC-130J Ghostrider gunship. 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