WASHINGTON: Defense startup Covenant on Wednesday unveiled a heavy-payload, long-range cruise missile it says can be quickly mass-produced at a relatively low cost, in the latest challenge to major U.S. weapons makers from some of Silicon Valley's biggest investors.
The announcement from Covenant after two years of development coincides with efforts by the U.S. and its allies to restock missile inventories with less expensive and plentiful long-range precision-strike missiles after the war in Iran depleted stocks of the critical armaments.
