The US went from "gunboat diplomacy" to Tomahawk diplomacy

Editor's note: The "deep state" is defined by Raytheon (an RTX business), Boeing and the United States of Lockheed Martin. Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are not America, and neither is the Pentagon. They operate in a parallel universe completely unhinged from America. Whoever would come out on top of falsifying the alleged bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran is anyone's guess if it was staged. How do we know more than "1,000 Tomahawk missiles were dropped on Iran?" That sounds more like copy edit advertising for Raytheon, so when Trump says he is going to "bomb the shit out of Oman," what he is really saying he is going to bomb the shit out of Oman for Raytheon. The widely cited "1,000+ Tomahawks" figure is an unverified estimate drawn from once again "anonymous leaks" to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal (increases stock value: 52-week range: approximately $150.61 – $226.88), later repeated by CSIS, rather than any official public tally, yet it is now being used to justify a $22.9 billion multi-year contract that dramatically expands Raytheon's production line and revenue. There was a saying some years ago called "gunboat diplomacy." Today it's Tomahawk diplomacy, Raytheon's preferred business model, where every "conflict" conveniently empties the magazine and triggers another multi-billion-dollar replenishment contract paid for by the same taxpayers who never consented to the last one.

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US Military Awards Raytheon With $22.9 Billion Contract To Ramp Up Tomahawk Missile Production

The US fired over 1,000 Tomahawk missiles during its war against Iran, and it was the weapon used in the strike on an elementary school in Minab

by Dave DeCamp | August 17, 2026

Raytheon has landed a massive $22.9 billion contract with the US military to dramatically ramp up the production of Tomahawk missiles, as US arms makers continue to cash in on the US-Israeli war against Iran.

The US fired over 1,000 Tomahawk missiles into Iran during the conflict, nearly one-third of the pre-war inventory, according to analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

All available evidence suggests that Tomahawk missiles were what was used when the US bombed the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, an attack that killed at least 156 people, including 120 schoolchildren.

Raytheon currently produces 60 Tomahawk missiles per year, but under a new agreement with the US War Department, it plans to ramp up production to more than 1,000 per year, according to a press release from RTX Corporation, Raytheon’s parent company.

"Tomahawk is the Navy's most important strike weapon, able to target hostile forces hundreds of miles away without ever risking the lives of our sailors," said Raytheon President Phil Jasper.

"We are making significant investments in our workforce, technology, supply chain, and facilities to dramatically boost production capacity and meet surging demand," Jasper added.

The news comes after the US military awarded massive contracts to Lockheed Martin to ramp up production of air defense munitions depleted in the Iran war, including a $35 billion deal for THAAD interceptors and a $58.6 billion contract for Patriot PAC-3 interceptors.

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What's another $850 million more?

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Excellent. Can't kill anyone without the weapons. The only thing America manufactures anymore outside of data centers:

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