Netherlands, Japan Purchase PAC-3 Systems

The Netherlands and Japan have become the first international purchasers of Lockheed Martin’s Patriot Advanced Capability 3 antiballistic missile batteries, Defense Daily International reported Friday (see GSN, Dec. 1, 2004).

“Virtually every current Patriot customer has expressed an interest in
upgrading their systems to the PAC-3 configuration,” said Mike Trotsky, vice
president-Air & Missile Defense Systems at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire
Control. “Over the next five years or so I expect we will probably enter into contracts with all of those countries.”

Under the $532 million contract, Lockheed Martin is expected to deliver 156 PAC-3 missiles to the U.S. Army, which is then to send 32 missiles to the Netherlands and 16 to Japan next year (Ann Roosevelt, Defense Daily International, Feb. 4).

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