Netherlands considers joint European production of Raytheon’s AIM-120 (AMRAAM)

The Netherlands is exploring a bilateral cooperation that it says is a first step toward joint European production of Raytheon’s AIM-120 AMRAAM with a NATO partner. Dutch officials framed the move as an industrialisation effort to bolster European supply chains and local sustainment for the missile.

Discovered 2025-11-04T08:58:09.148556-08:00 | 2025-11-04T08:58:09.148556-08:00

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European customers are already committing to AMRAAM buys — the US cleared a potential sale of up to 400 AIM-120D-3 missiles to Germany and approved 405 AIM-120D-3 missiles to Finland — so on-continent production would affect large procurement and sustainment flows (https://hype.aero/?story=2faa36c2-2428-4439-8c41-78d63cbb0d36, https://hype.aero/?story=551a1103-94ba-4b3a-adbe-dd55848de403).
The proposal fits a broader trend of US primes and European firms co-producing missile and munitions capability in Europe, following recent Raytheon–Diehl co-production moves and major European ammunition industrialisation efforts, underscoring defence-industrial and supply-chain resilience priorities (https://hype.aero/?story=38d29537-9296-4f1a-b563-eeac330f0c30, https://hype.aero/?story=6afd2a8f-a771-4217-97bd-ea79ec0959c5).

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