Divergent 3D opens giant California factory for 3D printed Tomahawk parts

Divergent 3D has opened a 430,000-square-foot factory in Long Beach, California, for Tomahawk missile structures, and the company says the site will eventually house 64 Monolith One metal printers. The plant is designed to turn out as many as 30,000 missile airframes or 60,000 warhead casings a year, depending on Pentagon demand, with production on the Tomahawk midbody structure targeted for the first half of 2027.

For the 3D printing crowd, the important detail is not the missile contract itself but the scale and the process behind it. Divergent says its Monolith One system is a laser powder bed fusion machine built for continuous, high-throughput production, with 24kW of laser power made up of 12 2kW lasers. The company says the printer is not commercially available to buy or license, which matters more than the headline number: this is not a giant prosumer machine waiting to trickle down to the garage.

Divergent has built its business around what it calls the Divergent Adaptive Production System, or DAPS, which combines AI-enabled engineering, robotics and fixed-tooling-free production. That is the part worth watching from outside the defense world. Desktop and prosumer printers are not going to wake up next year with 24kW laser arrays, but the same push for less manual fixturing, tighter automation and more repeatable build workflows is already shaping the machines hobby users actually buy.

The Tomahawk work also slots into a wider rearmament of U.S. missile production capacity. Divergent is serving as a second-source supplier for RTX’s Raytheon on the Tomahawk midbody structure, while Raytheon and the Pentagon signed five framework agreements in February 2026 to raise missile output, including Tomahawk production to more than 1,000 a year. NAVAIR describes the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile as a long-range cruise missile used for deep land attack warfare by U.S. forces and international partners.

The Navy received its first Block V-configured Tomahawk missiles on March 25, 2021, after recertifying older Block IV inventory for fleet use. Divergent, founded in 2014 and operating in Torrance and Long Beach, says the new factory will lift annual production eightfold across defense and commercial programs. That is the scale gap in one number: the factory is not a preview of a desktop future, but it is a reminder that additive manufacturing is moving hardest where repeatability, automation and metal throughput matter most.