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The MIM-104 Patriot is a mobile interceptor missile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system.
A-Darter fifth generation short range infrared homing air-to-air missile (joint South Africa ... (Bolide missile land-based VSHORAD system) [24 ... MIM-104 Patriot;
The NATO Medium Extended Air Defense System Management Agency (NAMEADSMA) is located in Huntsville, Alabama.The agency was founded by NATO in July 1996 to oversee the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), a joint military project intended to replace the aging MIM-104 Patriot missile system.
Prosecutors in Boston alleged that Raytheon from 2012 to 2018 defrauded the Defense Department into paying over $111 million more than it should have in two contracts to purchase Patriot missile ...
A PAC-3 interceptor from a Patriot missile system, primarily used by the U.S. Army and allied nations for land-based air defense, was tested in May on a "virtual Aegis ship" using a Mk. 70 ...
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that it has awarded Lockheed Martin a $755.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to produce Patriot PAC-3 missiles for foreign military sale ...
Iron Dome uses principles that are similar to a true anti-ballistic missile system to intercept slower-moving short-range rockets and artillery projectiles, employing the Tamir missile at ranges of up to 70km and altitudes to 10km, at a cost of about $50,000 per missile. Iron Dome also has an anti-aircraft capability.
Raytheon's Patriot missile system blasted onto the world stage in 1991, when the missiles famously sheltered U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, and Israeli civilians in Israel, from a furious swarm of ...