The United States has approved a possible foreign military sale to Belgium for AGM-184 Joint Strike Missiles and related equipment, a package the US State Department values at up to 236 million dollars.
The US State Department made the determination on 18 May 2026, with the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency notifying Congress under transmittal number 26-52. According to the notification, Belgium has requested the missiles themselves along with spare and repair parts, training aids and devices, test and multi-purpose missile equipment, classified and unclassified software and support, technical publications, transportation support, and US government and contractor engineering, technical and logistics services.
The AGM-184 is the US designation for the Joint Strike Missile, a long-range, low-observable precision weapon developed by Norway’s Kongsberg. Designed for both anti-ship and land-attack roles, the missile is notable for being sized to fit inside the internal weapons bay of the F-35A, allowing the aircraft to carry it without compromising the stealth shaping that external stores would degrade.
Its combination of low radar signature, a sea-skimming and terrain-following flight profile and a range of several hundred kilometres is intended to let a launching aircraft engage targets from well outside the reach of many shorter-range defences.
Two principal contractors were named: Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace of Kongsberg, Norway, which builds the missile, and RTX Corporation of Arlington, Virginia.
