Lockheed, ATK, Northrop Team Up to Build Dual-Mission Missile System

By Marcus Weisgerber / July 16, 2008 at 5:00 AM
FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND -- Lockheed Martin, Alliant Techsystems and Northrop Grumman have signed a teaming agreement to develop a next-generation multirole weapon for the fifth-generation F-22A Raptor and F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, the trio announced this morning. The companies will work together to optimize the air-to-air and air-to-ground capable missile, said Lockheed Missile and Fire Control Executive Vice President Ron Abbott. "There is a whole new generation of weapons systems that need to be outfitted to those aircraft to really...

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