Lockheed to Enhance PAC-3 Performance, Memory

Lockheed Martin is developing a system to enhance the range, maneuverability and usefulness of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor, Aerospace Daily reported today (see GSN, Oct. 6).

The Missile Segment Enhancement system would increase the range of the PAC-3 by up to 50 percent. As it encountered enemy missiles, the MSE would also relay information back to ground units in an attempt to enhance future intercepts.

“If you go into any new theater, you may see a new threat, a new target, that you have not seen before,” said Lockheed Martin Vice President Steve Graham. The MSE “gives the Army the capability to immediately get data on that engagement,” he added.

Lockheed officials have scheduled the system’s first flight test for September 2006 and its first two intercept tests for 2007 (Marc Selinger, Aerospace Daily, Dec. 11).

Back to top
About Newswire  |  Contact National Journal  |  Re-Use Guidelines © Copyright 2008 by National Journal Group, Inc. The material in this section is produced independently for NTI by National Journal Group, Inc. Any reproduction or retransmission, in whole or in part, is a violation of federal law and is strictly prohibited without the consent of the National Journal Group, Inc. All rights reserved.