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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Lockheed Offers Options for Replacing NLOS-LS


Lockheed Martin has responded to a U.S. Navy request for ideas to replace the canceled Non-Line of Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS).

After the U.S. Army killed the missiles-in-a-box program, leaving the Littoral Combat Ships without a medium-range weapon, the Navy asked the company, which developed the NLOS-LS’s launch box, for ideas.

“We gave them a menu of solutions, things we can fire out of that NLOS command launch unit,” said Lockheed’s Morri Leland, director of international business development for tactical missiles and combat maneuver systems. “We have weapon options out of that box, if you want to retain the box.”

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