Products Covenant

Anthem

Long-range cruise missile built from mostly commercial parts for mass production, with a 200 kg-plus payload at a mid-six-figure unit cost.

Missile / loitering munitionby CovenantIntroduced 2026

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Anthem is the only product Covenant makes, and its design brief is volume rather than performance. It is a long-range cruise missile carrying a payload of more than 200 kilograms, assembled largely from commercial components and priced in the mid six figures per round. Covenant has not disclosed its range, describing it only as suited to the European theatre.

The company frames the weapon as an answer to a specific Western shortfall it calls the deep precision strike gap. Existing cruise missiles are capable but slow to build and expensive enough that stockpiles are counted in the hundreds. Anthem is designed around the opposite constraint: cheap enough and simple enough to hold in quantity, and easy to store. Abby Denburg, Covenant’s president and chief growth officer, has argued that deterrence rests on having enough depth in the arsenal to sustain a conflict for weeks or months rather than days.

The missile first flew in August 2025 and has since accumulated more than 200 test flights. Testing has included trials with the US Army under an other-transaction agreement and at least one campaign conducted in Morocco. The US Navy’s Rapid Capabilities Office has awarded Covenant roughly $70 million to adapt the missile for maritime use, and ground-attack and naval variants are both in development.

Serial production is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2027 across three plants: Grand Prairie in Texas, a site in Saxony in eastern Germany, and a facility in northern Israel. Covenant plans to build about 1,000 missiles in the first year and reach a run rate of 5,000 a year during 2028.

The European production line carries a deliberate supply-chain claim. Covenant says less than 5% of the bill of materials for the Anthem built in Saxony originates outside Europe, and that it intends to reach zero — positioning the missile against the export-control friction that accompanies European purchases of American munitions. One European contract has been signed; the customer has not been named.

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