AIBRIEF
Covenant Industries' Anthem missile completed its first live fire at the Africa Multidomain Training and Experimentation Center (AMTEC), a permanent US Morocco range near Tan Tan, alongside US and Moroccan forces.
Covenant Industries live-launched its Anthem cruise missile on August 6 at the new Africa Multidomain Training and Experimentation Center (AMTEC) near Tan-Tan, a port city in southern Morocco near the Sahara. Company engineers worked alongside US troops and the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces in a data-gathering run, not a deployment: the first live-fire at the permanent US-Morocco test site.
Anthem had already completed an initial test in California the previous month, per the Jerusalem Post. The Morocco run evaluated communications, launch mechanisms, wing and tire maneuverability, and desert-weather targeting data.
Founded in 2024, Covenant has no public website. Backers named in Israeli coverage include Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, 8VC, and Lightspeed. Moroccan outlet Medias24 has put the company's valuation above $1B, a figure Covenant has not publicly confirmed and no US primary has corroborated.
The pitch: a cheaper, mass-producible alternative to the US Navy's Tomahawk, with comparable long-range precision strike. Chief growth officer Abby Denburg told reporters the company is preparing to deliver production-ready units, though the visible quote is cut off mid-sentence and no delivery timeline has been disclosed.
A venture-backed Tomahawk-class round is now tested hardware on a permanent US-Morocco range. Who buys it, on what schedule, and under what operational arrangement is not yet on the record.