MEADS: the Patriot of the future

While the left fiddles (and the world burns) those of us in uniform get to work on actually protecting freedom:

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has completed an extensive series of Critical Design Review (CDR) events with a Summary CDR at MEADS International in Orlando, FL.

The program team’s focus now moves to final build, integration and test activities leading to flight tests involving all system elements at White Sands Missile Range, NM, in 2012.

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