Investor’s Business Daily:
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin (LMT) looks to build on existing ballistic missile defense systems to counter the emerging hypersonic missile threat.
A hypersonic missile is envisioned as flying five times the speed of sound but, unlike ballistic missiles, they fly in unpredictable paths, rendering their targets nearly defenseless with today’s technology.
“I think the way we’re going to get after hypersonic defense is much the way we did with Ballistic Missile Defense,” Scott Arnold, Lockheed’s VP of integrated air and missile defense, said at a press briefing at the Association of the United States Army conference in Washington.
