The Air Force's replacement to the Air Launched Cruise Missile is projected to complete two system-level preliminary design reviews this fall. Leah Bryant, a spokeswoman with the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, told Inside Defense in an Aug. 20 email that the reviews of the Long-Range Standoff Weapon will occur late in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2019, stating both contractors for the new weapon have already progressed through component and subsystem PDRs. The upcoming assessments will happen...
