Lockheed Martin and Others Win Missile Defense Contract

[yasin_khan]

Several European makers of military air equipment, including EADS and the U.S. company Lockheed Martin, have won a contract from NATO worth $3 billion (2.44 billion euros) to design and build a MEADS missile defense system, the MEADS group said Sept. 29.

MEADS (Medium Extended Air Defense System) is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Corp, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), MBDA-Italia and Lenkflugkorpersysteme (LFK) in Germany.

The contract followed a series of successful system demonstrations, and an agreement between the US and Italy to develop the advanced ground-mobile air and missile defense system, it said.

Germany is expected to sign the agreement following parliamentary procedures later this year.

MEADS is a mobile air defense system designed to replace the Patriot missile systems in the US and Germany, and Nike Hercules systems in Italy.

The United States is providing 58 percent of the finance for the program, Germany 25.0 percent and Italy 17 percent.



http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=378843&C=europe

 

[kashifshahzad]

can they will be able to manufacture an acurate defence system which should demolish all the missliles attacking their teretory :?

 

[kashifshahzad]

yasin can you plz tel me that can pakistan be able to develop the second stage misslies like chona dong which could reach the other continents as well (icbms)

 

[ajay_ijn]

yasin can you plz tel me that can pakistan be able to develop the second stage misslies like chona dong which could reach the other continents as well (icbms)

Yasin is banned,he cannot reply u.
Well I think Shaheen-2 is a two stage ballistic Missile.
ICBM's are 3 stage not 2 stage.
NorthKorea is far from making a ICBM and also Pakistan.
However India can build an ICBM but there is no Poltical will for that.

I don't want to discuss more about it as this is not related to the topic.

Well Lockheed is getting contracts on a rampage JSF,F-22,MEADS and whats next.

Can anybody Give me info about the surveillance RADAR of this MEADS.