CNBC:
TROY, Alabama — The crown jewel of U.S. missile defense systems comes from an unlikely place: a 4,000 acre compound nestled in the quiet woods of a southern Alabama town.
For the first time, Lockheed Martin opened to the media its heavily guarded compound in Troy, Alabama, where it builds and breeds America’s THAAD, or terminal high altitude area defense system. The process to open up the facility took more than a year of security approvals and was conditional that no photography or recording devices could enter the complex.
“No other media has been back here in the manufacturing area,” Jason Crager, Lockheed’s site director, said earlier this week during the drive up to a nondescript building tucked into the trees. “And not too many people in the world can say they have stood either in front of or beside a THAAD missile.”
