Lockheed To Supply Army Tactical Guided Missiles To Bahrain, Poland, Romania

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06:21 AM, June 25, 2019
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ATACMS (Image: Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $561.8 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) for Army tactical guided missiles, and Launching Assembly Service Life Extension program to Bahrain, Poland and Romania.

Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) is a long-range guided missile packaged in a MLRS look-alike launch pod and is fired from the MLRS Family of Launchers. It is a conventional surface-to-surface artillery weapon system capable of striking targets well beyond the range of existing Army cannons, rockets and other missiles. ATACMS missiles are fired from the MLRS M270 and M270A1 weapons platform.

Work is expected to be completed by June 30, 2022, the US Department of Defense said in a statement Monday.

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