World's Biggest Defense Contractor in Overdrive Mode - Part 2

PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE): The PAC-3 MSE has proven itself to be one of the world’s foremost missile defense interceptor, as part of the PATRIOT terminal air defense system, in Ukraine, wherein, it has even taken down the Russian air-launched hypersonic missile, Kinzhal, which has further revived the modernized version of the PATRIOT system originally designed in the 1970s decade and inducted into service in 1984.

As part of ramping-up production rates on the PAC-3 MSE, in 2022, Lockheed Martin inaugurated a new, 85,000 sq.ft. expanded facility at the existing PAC-3 MSE production facility in Camden, Arkansas aimed at expanding existing production capacity. Additionally, Lockheed Martin has announced plans to further increase the production capacity of PAC-3 to around 650 missiles by 2027 to meet increasing global demand for the PATRIOT system.

Further, the global industrial base for the PATRIOT System and PAC-3 MSE System is expanding as well with Polish Defense Industrial base slated to produce the missile launch tubes for the PAC-3 MSEs under an industrial offset program, in return, for the WISLA-II program, under which, Poland will acquire 6 additional PATRIOT missile batteries.

Long Live the Patriot and his Patriotic Deeds...

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