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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.
It used the T-22 missile and the Patriot-based Martin Marietta T-16 missile with cluster warheads. In March 1980 the U.S. Army decided to replace the Lance with a similar nuclear, but also chemical or biological, tipped solid-fuel missile with simplified usability dubbed the Corps Support Weapon System (CSWS).
In December 2011, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a deal to purchase the missile defense system. [141] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) graduated its first two THAAD unit classes at Fort Bliss in 2015 and 2016. [142] Its first live-fire exercises with Patriot missiles took place in 2014.
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 ...
A U.S. defence official said a $4.5 billion contract signed in June with the U.S. Army - the Patriot system's primary customer - marked the beginning of a ramp-up in production of both missiles ...
Lockheed Martin claimed 10% of the 20 contracts the Pentagon awarded Monday, winning a total of about $20 million in new government work. Specifically: Lockheed's Integrated Systems unit was ...
The Arrow or Hetz (Hebrew: חֵץ, pronounced or pronounced) is a family of anti-ballistic missiles designed to fulfill an Israeli requirement for a missile defense system that would be more effective against ballistic missiles than the MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile. Jointly funded and produced by Israel and the United States ...
The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of up to 600 Patriot air defense missiles to NATO ally Germany for an estimated cost of $5 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday. "The ...