The U.S. Army delayed plans to buy Lockheed Martin’s missile-shield system, so the company is looking for buyers overseas.
The missile system, which intercepts incoming rockets, artillery and mortar threats, is still in development for the army, but sources at Lockheed would well to foreign governments if they received approval to do so from the U.S. government, DefenseNews reported Thursday.
The Army bumped the program “to the right for a couple of years for whatever reason,” Bob Delgado, director of international business development for Lockheed, told DefenseNews. If Lockheed gets approval to sell the missiles overseas, foreign countries could receive the battle-ready missile shield system of the U.S. Army.
“It’s really a bullet hitting a bullet,” Delgado said, describing the system. Delgado said Europe, Asia and the Middle East are interested in the missile system. The Army tested the Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) missiles in April, describing it as a “mobile ground-based weapon system designed to defeat unmanned aircraft systems, cruise missiles, and rockets, artillery, and mortars.”
The project was originally given to Lockheed Martin in January, 2015, with an initial award of $46,509,372.
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