Kratos unveils Ragnarök: $150K, 500‑nm cruise missile to enable massed strikes with XQ‑58

Kratos introduced the Ragnarök low‑cost cruise missile at AUSA/Miramar, pitching a mass‑producible strike weapon with a 500‑nautical‑mile range, Mach 0.7 speed and a modular 36 kg (≈80 lb) payload. The company says unit cost is about $150,000 to support massed use with XQ‑58 Valkyrie.

Discovered 2025-10-14T01:05:09.169408-07:00 | 2025-10-14T01:05:09.169408-07:00

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  • A low unit cost (~$150,000) coupled with 500 nm range and a modular ~36 kg (≈80 lb) warhead shifts strike economics toward massed, attritable munitions and changes force-planning calculations for long‑range strikes; see Kratos' progress on the XQ‑58 Valkyrie for operational pairing.
  • Ragnarök's design accelerates the trend of pairing small/medium munitions with unmanned platforms and air‑launch concepts, reinforcing recent examples of munitions‑airframe integration such as the Aeon–Delta Black RAIDER integration and Northrop's Lumberjack air‑launch work for XQ‑58.

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2025-10-14T01:05:09.169408-07:00
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2025-10-21T22:52:51.192162-07:00
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