Germany May Adapt Patriot After MEADS Missile Project Dropped
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Germany may upgrade its short-range missile-defense capability by adapting the aging Patriot system after its planned successor known as MEADS was dropped on cost grounds, a senior Defense Ministry official said.
Germany is looking at alternatives to MEADS and doesn’t rule out adopting the project’s radar technology to upgrade Raytheon Co.’s Patriot, Deputy Defense Minister Ruediger Wolf said in an interview today in Berlin. Such a step would follow a decision by the U.S. to end MEADS, a joint venture of Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp. and the German and Italian arms of MBDA Missile Systems.