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MEADS Completes Preliminary Design Review; Tests Set For 2011-13

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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

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The American-European Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) completed its preliminary design review (PDR), and a program contractor yesterday voiced confidence that MEADS will be able to shoot down targets successfully. "Seven flight tests of increasing...complexity" are scheduled for 2011 through 2013 against "different types of targets in different scenarios," said Jim Cravens, president of MEADS International, a multi-national contractor team headquartered in Orlando, Fla. It includes MBDA in Italy, LFK in Germany and Lockheed Martin [LMT] in the United…

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