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Lockheed Martin, MBDA Deutschland Submit Updated, Final Proposal For Germany’s Future Air Defense System

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, August 14th, 2020

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Lockheed Martin, MBDA Deutschland Submit Updated, Final Proposal For Germany’s Future Air Defense System

Lockheed Martin and MBDA Deutschland's TLVS

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and MBDA Deutschland have submitted a final, updated proposal to develop Germany’s next air and missile defense system, set to be a first-of-its-kind 360-degree, networked integrated capability, the companies said Friday. The proposal for the TLVS system follows a series of negotiations with the German government over the last several months to resolve details around specific requirements from the bid it submitted in June 2019. “In the last months we made progress in further detailing the Integrated…

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