{"id":27394867,"date":"2026-10-09T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/b-52-lrasm-integration-navair-lockheed-martin-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:50:15","slug":"b-52-lrasm-integration-navair-lockheed-martin-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/b-52-lrasm-integration-navair-lockheed-martin-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"B-52 LRASM Integration: Navy Moves to Make the BUFF a Ship-Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background 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It names no price and no delivery date. What it does name is a bomber that first flew in 1952 and a missile built to find a warship on its own in the middle of an ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Naval Air Systems Command says it intends to negotiate, sole-source, with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control for \u201cefforts associated with LRASM integration on the B-52 aircraft platform.\u201d In plain terms: the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/b-52-stratofortress\/\">B-52 Stratofortress<\/a> is being lined up to carry the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, the stealthy weapon that already rides on the B-1B and the Navy\u2019s Super Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is not new. It was first floated in 2019 and then went quiet for the better part of six years. What has changed is the size of the ocean the United States expects to fight over, and how few platforms can reach the middle of it with a full magazine.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f8;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:26px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> NAVAIR special notice, \u201cLRASM B-52 Integration and Test Support\u201d, posted 7 October 2026 on SAM.gov<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>Contractor:<\/strong> Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (sole source), place of performance Orlando, Florida<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>Contract type:<\/strong> Cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order under basic ordering agreement N00019-23-G-0002; no value published<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>Scope:<\/strong> Missile software updates, associated testing, test asset repair and failure review boards<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>Missile:<\/strong> AGM-158C LRASM, derived from the AGM-158B JASSM-ER, 1,000 lb-class penetrating warhead, range publicly reported at a little over 200 miles<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>B-52 load:<\/strong> Already carries up to 20 JASSMs, which share LRASM\u2019s basic dimensions<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>Other LRASM carriers:<\/strong> B-1B (early operational capability 2018), F\/A-18E\/F (2019), B-2A (revealed June 2026), with F-35 and P-8A integration in progress<\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What the notice actually says<\/h2>\n<p>The notice on B-52 LRASM integration, solicitation number N00019-26-RFPREQ-WPM201-0237, is a pre-award announcement rather than a contract. NAVAIR says it will place a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against an existing basic ordering agreement with Lockheed, and lists the work as missile software updates, associated testing, test asset repair and failure review boards. Capability statements from other firms are due by 22 October, though the Navy makes clear it does not expect any.<\/p>\n<p>Its justification is blunt. Lockheed, the notice says, is the sole designer, developer, manufacturer and integrator of LRASM, and only Lockheed holds the technical data to do the job in the time required. Aviation Week reported the notice the day it appeared; Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine followed on 8 October with the first detailed account.<\/p>\n<p>There is no mention of new pylons, new launchers or airframe modification. The words are \u201cmissile software\u201d. That points to the hard part of B-52 LRASM integration being on the weapon\u2019s side of the interface rather than the bomber\u2019s.<\/p>\n\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\/10\/lrasm-launch-b-1b-lancer-darpa-2013.jpg\" alt=\"An LRASM prototype drops away from a B-1B Lancer during a 2013 flight test\" 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 LRASM prototype separates from a B-1B Lancer during DARPA\u2019s first free-flight test in August 2013. The B-1B became the first operational LRASM carrier in 2018. DARPA photo \/ public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why the BUFF is an easy fit<\/h2>\n<p>LRASM is a JASSM-ER with a different brain. It keeps the stealthy airframe, the turbofan and the penetrating warhead, and swaps in a sensor package designed to locate and identify a ship without a constant feed from outside. The B-52 already carries up to 20 JASSMs, and the two missiles share similar dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>That matters, because physical carriage is usually the slowest and most expensive part of putting a new weapon on an aircraft. Here the racks and the rotary launcher already exist. What remains is teaching the bomber\u2019s stores management system and the missile to talk to each other, and proving the combination with test shots.<\/p>\n<p>Naval News reported in November 2019 that a 10 million dollar allocation in fiscal 2019 had funded early study work, with Navy and Air Force teams involved. Nothing visible followed for years. The new notice is the first public sign that the effort has moved from studies to a funded integration and test task.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;A handful of B-52s will be able to deliver more weapons on maritime targets and do so over much longer ranges than the Navy\u2019s carrier-based aircraft per day.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Col. Mark Gunzinger (USAF, ret.)<\/strong> &mdash; Former B-52 pilot, director of future concepts and capability assessments, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, to Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine, 8 October 2026<\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>Gunzinger\u2019s point is arithmetic, not romance. A carrier air wing generates sorties in pairs and fours, each Super Hornet carrying a handful of large missiles. A bomber launched from a base thousands of miles from the threat can put a double-digit salvo into the air on a single sortie, and refuel on the way home.<\/p>\n\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\/h449oIjg2kY\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:-10px 0 24px;font-style:italic\">Lockheed Martin\u2019s official LRASM film: launch, autonomous routing and terminal attack on a moving ship target.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Bombers as the maritime strike force<\/h2>\n<p>The B-52 would be the third Air Force bomber to carry the missile. The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/b-1-lancer\/\">B-1B Lancer<\/a> was the test aircraft from the very first LRASM drop in 2013 and reached early operational capability with it in 2018. The Navy followed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fa-18-super-hornet\/\">F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet<\/a> in 2019, and Australia\u2019s Super Hornets have since gone operational with it too, as Afterburner covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/raaf-f-a-18f-lrasm-jassm-er-initial-operational-capability-2026\/\">RAAF Super Hornets Go Live With LRASM and JASSM-ER<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In June the Air Force disclosed something it had never acknowledged before: a <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/b-2-spirit\/\">B-2 Spirit<\/a> had fired an LRASM into the decommissioned amphibious ship ex-USS Juneau during Valiant Shield 2026 in the Western Pacific. We wrote it up in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/b-2-spirit-lrasm-sinkex-valiant-shield-2026\/\">The B-2 Just Became a Ship-Killer<\/a>. Flight testing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">F-35<\/a> began with the F-35C in 2024 and expanded to the F-35B in 2025, and Lockheed lists the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/p-8-poseidon\/\">P-8 Poseidon<\/a> among its ongoing integration efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Add the B-52 and every US heavy bomber type in service could launch the same stealthy ship-killer.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #3568e0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;The Air Force\u2019s bomber force will be our military\u2019s predominant maritime strike force, considering the number of anti-ship cruise missiles they can carry per sortie and deliver over intercontinental ranges, if necessary.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Col. Mark Gunzinger (USAF, ret.)<\/strong> &mdash; Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, to Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine, 8 October 2026<\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>He added that the move would let commanders strike maritime targets while launching from airbases in lower-threat areas, without putting aircraft carriers at risk. For the B-52, which has no stealth of its own, that is the whole proposition: stay outside the defended zone and let a stealthy missile do the last few hundred kilometres.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Not the B-52\u2019s first ship-killer<\/h2>\n<p>There is a historical echo here. In the 1980s, as the US Navy worried about Soviet bombers and surface groups swarming its carriers, a number of B-52Gs were modified to carry the AGM-84 Harpoon. Squadrons in Maine and on Guam trained to hit Soviet ships on the flanks of carrier battle groups, and B-52 crews practised low-level maritime profiles over open water.<\/p>\n\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\/10\/b-52-agm-84-harpoon-mather-1983.jpg\" alt=\"A camouflaged B-52 with an AGM-84A Harpoon anti-ship missile on its wing pylon at Mather Air Force Base, 1983\" 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\">A B-52 with an AGM-84A Harpoon on its wing pylon prepares to take off at Mather Air Force Base, California, in March 1983; Defense Department records describe the flight as a first Harpoon launch. The bomber had a maritime strike role long before LRASM. U.S. Department of Defense photo \/ public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>The G models were scrapped under the START treaty after the Cold War, and the H models inherited the Harpoon capability along with a long list of other weapons. The difference now is range and survivability. A Harpoon has to be launched comparatively close to its target. LRASM is designed to cross a defended area, find its target with its own sensors and pick an aimpoint, which is exactly what a 1950s design cannot do for itself.<\/p>\n<p>The bomber is also mid-way through the biggest refit of its career, with a new AESA radar and Rolls-Royce F130 engines on the way. Afterburner has followed the radar effort closely in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/b-52-radar-modernization-raytheon-boeing-766-million-2026\/\">B-52 Radar Modernization: $766 Million and Still Testing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What we still do not know<\/h2>\n<p>Quite a lot. The notice gives no contract value and no schedule, and neither NAVAIR nor Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commented to Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine. Lockheed spokesperson Scott Swofford deferred to the Pentagon on details, while describing LRASM as a precise, stealthy and survivable cruise missile.<\/p>\n<p>Range is another open question. LRASM\u2019s figure is not officially published; Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine puts it just beyond 200 miles, close to the baseline JASSM, and other outlets report 200 to 300. A longer-ranged version has been discussed separately, and Lockheed\u2019s new modular AGM-158 FLEX airframe, which we covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/agm-158-flex-modular-jassm-lockheed-martin-2026\/\">AGM-158 FLEX: Lockheed\u2019s JASSM With a Nose That Unclips<\/a>, may yet offer an LRASM-style nose.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is supply. Pentagon acquisition reports cited by Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine say Lockheed had delivered 5,348 JASSMs to both services by April, with capacity of 600 a year and plans to reach 860. A Center for a New American Security report estimates the Air Force used about a quarter of its JASSM inventory during Operation Epic Fury. LRASM comes off the same production line, so every new launch platform competes for the same missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the direction is clear. B-52 LRASM integration turns a bomber the Air Force plans to keep flying until around 2050 into a long-range magazine for the one mission the Pacific is most likely to demand. Seventy-four years after first flight, the BUFF is being taught to hunt ships again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: NAVAIR special notice \u201cLRASM B-52 Integration and Test Support\u201d, N00019-26-RFPREQ-WPM201-0237, SAM.gov, 7 October 2026; Todd South, Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine, 8 October 2026; Brian Everstine, Aviation Week, 7 October 2026; Xavier Vavasseur, Naval News, 5 November 2019; Joseph Trevithick and Howard Altman, TWZ, 29 June 2026; Lockheed Martin LRASM product page; Wikipedia, AGM-158C LRASM and Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\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>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Is the B-52 getting the LRASM anti-ship missile?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes, according to a Naval Air Systems Command notice posted on 7 October 2026. NAVAIR plans a sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control for B-52 LRASM integration, covering missile software updates, testing, test asset repair and failure review boards. No contract value or schedule has been published yet.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the AGM-158C LRASM?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile is a stealthy subsonic cruise missile built by Lockheed Martin and derived from the AGM-158B JASSM-ER. It carries a 1,000 lb-class penetrating warhead and its own sensors to find and identify a ship. Its range is not officially published but is reported at a little over 200 miles.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many LRASMs can a B-52 carry?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine reports the B-52 may be able to carry up to 20 LRASMs. The bomber already carries up to 20 JASSMs, and the two missiles share similar dimensions, which is why the NAVAIR notice focuses on missile software and testing rather than new racks or airframe changes.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which aircraft already carry the LRASM?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The B-1B Lancer reached early operational capability with LRASM in 2018 and the US Navy F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet in 2019. Australian F\/A-18F Super Hornets also operate it. The Air Force revealed in June 2026 that a B-2 Spirit had fired one, and F-35 and P-8A integration work is under way.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Has the B-52 had an anti-ship role before?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. In the 1980s some B-52Gs were modified to carry the AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile, with units in Maine and on Guam assigned to support US Navy carrier groups against the Soviet fleet. The later B-52H inherited Harpoon capability, but LRASM adds far greater range and the ability to find targets autonomously.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why does the Air Force want bombers for maritime strike?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Bombers carry many large missiles per sortie and fly intercontinental distances with tanker support. Retired Col. 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