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Thursday, December 06, 2012

BAE Systems Secures Production Contract For THAAD Interceptor Seekers

THAAD Interceptor Seeker |BAE Systems has received initial contract funding in the amount of $81 million from Lockheed Martin Corp. to begin production of 143 infrared seekers for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system program, designed to defend U.S. and allied soldiers, military assets, and metropolitan areas from ballistic missile attack threats.

BAE Systems’ seeker provides the infrared imagery from the targeted warhead to the missile to guide the interceptor to its target, destroying enemy warheads through direct “hit-to-kill” technology.

“In what is called a ‘kinetic kill’, our reliable seeker detects infrared radiation from the target missile and warhead and generates video guiding the interceptor to the target,” said Barry Yeadon, THAAD program manager at BAE Systems.

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