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Japan Chooses Lockheed Martin For Aegis Ashore Radar

Monday, July 30th, 2018

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Japan Chooses Lockheed Martin For Aegis Ashore Radar

The Aegis Ashore site at Deveselu Air Base, Romania. It was the final component of Phase II of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) missile defense program. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

The Japanese Ministry of Defense said on Monday it selected Lockheed Martin [LMT] to provide its Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) for the country’s two future Aegis Ashore missile defense sites.The Japanese government disclosed its plans to boost missile defense, including adding two Aegis Ashore sites, last August (Defense Daily, Aug. 18, 2017). The ministry was evaluating Lockheed Martin's LRDR and Raytheon's [RTN] SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) in two stages focusing on basic performance, backward support, expenses, and…

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