{"id":2655,"date":"2026-03-03T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boomersbrokeamerica.com\/defense-contractor-profits-iran-war-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:10:33","slug":"defense-contractor-profits-iran-war-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boomersbrokeamerica.com\/ro\/defense-contractor-profits-iran-war-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Contractor Profits From the Iran War: Lockheed Is Up 39% and Your Gas Bill Is the Invoice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defense contractor profits from the Iran war are already massive \u2014 and Operation Epic Fury hasn’t been running a week yet. Lockheed Martin stock is up 39% year-to-date as of March 2, 2026. RTX (Raytheon’s parent) surged 4.7% on the opening day of strikes alone. The Pentagon has fired nearly 2,000 munitions at roughly 2,000 targets in Iran, burning through THAAD interceptors at $12.7 million each and Tomahawk cruise missiles at $2.2 million apiece \u2014 and the Trump administration is now planning an emergency meeting with Lockheed, RTX, and other weapons makers at the White House to discuss a reported $50 billion supplemental budget<\/a> to restock. Meanwhile, your gas prices are going up “within days,” per Oxford Economics. That’s the military-industrial complex working exactly as designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n