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Lockheed Receives $1.1 Billion To Deliver GMLRS To Bahrain, Poland and Romania

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, March 28th, 2019

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Lockheed Receives $1.1 Billion To Deliver GMLRS To Bahrain, Poland and Romania

Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) Unitary Rocket Launch. Aerojet Rocketdyne produces the solid propellant rocket motor for the system. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a $1.1 billion deal to provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) to Bahrain, Poland and Romania, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Deliveries of the GMLRS rockets to the three countries is expected to be completed in August 2021. Poland originally requested GMLRS rockets in 2017, with the State Department in 2017 approving the purchase, which also included Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles and High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (Defense Daily, Nov. 28,2017). In August 2017,…

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