Lockheed Martin presses work on shipboard missile protection system
Lockheed Martin is working under a new contract to develop a system that would protect ships from heat-seeking and optically guided missiles. The Shipboard Integrated Electro-optic Defense System, or SHIELDS, would use a laser to jam an anti-ship missile and cause it to veer off course, said John...
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