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MEADS Future Anti-Air Missile

MEADS Future Anti-Air Missile

MEADS: ground view(click to view full) As the ongoing development of nuclear weapons by unstable rogue regimes continue to make missile defense more of a global issue, Japan's cooperation with the USA has been obvious, including a recently successful joint test of a...

Germany Approves Involvement in MEADS Missile

Germany Approves Involvement in MEADS Missile

Despite a round of controversy reported earlier by DID, MEADS International (MI) recently announced that Germany has approved entry into the Design and Development (D&D) phase for the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), designed to replace Patriot systems in the United States and Germany and Nike Hercules systems in Italy. It also meets the requirements of Germany’s “capabilities oriented” air defense concept. …