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Lockheed Martin Target Missiles Work Well, Company Reports

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Monday, August 18th, 2008

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Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] has launched a dozen target missiles successfully since 2005, the company announced. The company did so under a targets and countermeasures contract with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Lockheed provides unarmed targets designed to represent adversary missiles to permit realistic testing of the weapon systems and other elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The company is providing an increasing percentage of the target missiles acquired by the Missile Defense Agency through various mechanisms. Lockheed team…

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