Why Is RTX Building 1,000 Tomahawks a Year?RTX CorporationBATS:RTXUDIS_ViewRaytheon Technologies is converting global rearmament into contracted revenue at remarkable speed. The U.S. Navy awarded the company a seven-year, $22.9 billion Tomahawk missile agreement that lifts annual output from under 100 units to more than 1,000. The Missile Defense Agency added $745 million for SM-3 Block IIA interceptors, and Raytheon committed $115 million to expand its Alabama integration facility by half. The Department of War also selected the company under its Arsenal of Freedom program, which hardens allied defense supply chains across coalition partners. The commercial side runs equally hot. Pratt & Whitney logged over 800 Geared Turbofan orders and commitments early in 2026, pushing the commercial backlog past 8,000 engines across more than 90 airline customers. BOC Aviation alone ordered up to 220 GTF engines. On the military propulsion side, a $1.3 billion F135 sustainment contract funds spare parts and depot equipment across 42 airbases and 13 active ships. Collins Aerospace layered on a $472 million Chinook modernization award for open-architecture avionics. Technology supplies the moat. Patented reduction gearing lets GTF fan blades spin slower and cuts aircraft fuel burn by twenty percent. The SPY-6 radar family uses standardized two-foot Radar Modular Assemblies, scaling across seven Navy ship classes from one shared patent architecture. In undersea autonomy, the all-carbon-fiber HADALUS platform traveled more than 2,000 nautical miles in trials at roughly one-third to one-fifth the cost of conventional long-endurance submersibles. Raytheon moved that program from sketch to sea demonstration in under 18 months. Government cost-sharing rounds out the picture. Pratt & Whitney Canada partnered with Canadian authorities on a CAD $275 million modernization of its Longueuil plant, lowering capital outlay while insulating margins from inflation and rate pressure. Backlog visibility now extends across the next decade, spanning missiles, radar, propulsion, and autonomous systems. The question is no longer whether demand exists, but whether production capacity can keep pace with it.