Lockheed Martin Scores With Air and Missile Defense in the Middle East
A PAC-3 MSE missile leaves the launcher during the successful test of the Lockheed Martin Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. on November 6.
A PAC-3 MSE missile leaves the launcher during the successful test of the Lockheed Martin Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. on November 6.

Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control division (MFC) is a major supplier of defense equipment to the Middle East and that business is about to arise to a new level thanks to an anticipated sale of its Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) to Qatar. Air and missile defense (AMD) has been a key requirement for most nations in the region for more than 20 years due to the increase of both foreign-purchased and indigenously-developed theater-range ballistic missile (TBM) inventories.