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First Look At Expanding THAAD Assembly Site

Monday, August 12th, 2019

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First Look At Expanding THAAD Assembly Site

A THAAD interceptor is launched from Kodiak, Alaska during Flight Experiment THAAD (FET)-01 on July 30, 2017. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

TROY, Ala. – Reporters last week got the first ever glimpse inside the facility that builds and assembles the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors while the campus is adding new buildings and capability. The company has built over 450 THAAD interceptors at the THAAD manufacturing, final assembly, and test facility here since work began in 2007. The company devotes 63,000 square feet to buildings manufacturing THAAD missiles, alone. The Troy site, called the Pike County…

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