CoAspire presented a low-cost cruise missile designed to bring cheap, 3D-printed, long-range munitions to the U.S. and partner Air Forces at Sea Air Space 2025. CoAspire’s RAACM leverages 3D printing techniques and a design philosophy shaped by affordability and modularity.=====================As the prime contractor of the Air Force’s Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile, CoAspire states that it aims to provide “an affordable and capable cruise missile at a fraction of the cost of other air-launched cruise missiles.” “For the RAACM, if you think about the cost of cruise missiles, not only being very expensive, but they have very exquisite capabilities. What we found interesting, we see this also in current conflicts, is sometimes mass or quantity of weapons has a certain capability all of itself. It’s just as important sometimes as all of the exquisites,” CoAspire CEO Doug Denneny told Naval News in an interview at Sea Air Space. With recent conflicts highlighting the utility of massed, low-end fires of one-way attack drones and missiles, RAACM’s development could provide U.S. and partner air forces with a readily available source of precision long-range fires. Other defense contractors, such as Lockheed, General Atomics, and Anduril, have displayed similar concepts amid concerns about Washington’s missile stocks and the need for more munitions in the Indo-Pacific. “Even though all of them won’t make it to the target, some of them will, as we’ve seen in current conflicts. And that creates a capability all of its own,” said Denneny. With comparable dimensions to a GBU-38 or a Mk.82 500-pound bomb, CoAspire’s RAACM can be fielded on a variety of aircraft. While the Air Force has provided funding for ensuring RAACM is compatible with its fighters, such as the F-15E Strike Eagle, the U.S. Navy has also contributed additional funds to ensure compatibility with the service’s carrier-borne strike aircraft.