Lockheed links LRDR tech with Aegis Ashore, offering Japan options for increased defense

By Jason Sherman / January 11, 2018 at 10:15 AM
Lockheed Martin has connected technologies being developed as part of two separate ballistic missile defense programs with an eye toward giving Japan an option to buy a radar that extends the reach of the Aegis Ashore systems it plans to acquire. The company connected components of its Aegis Ashore system, a land-based variant of the Aegis BMD system, and the Long Range Discrimination Radar, a $1 billion project to emplace a new early warning radar in Alaska by 2020 that...

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