Lockheed Martin wins contract to supply jets for Polish Air Force
PR dla Zagranicy
Jo Harper
14.09.2015 16:13
Lockheed Martin has won a Foreign Military Sales contract from the US Air Force to provide the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) to the Polish Air Force for its F-16 fleet.
Agm-158 JASSM. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Lockheed Martin is providing hardware and software, documentation, programme management and missiles in support of the Polish Shield initiative.
Poland is reportedly the third international customer for JASSM.
"JASSM provides Poland with operational flexibility, reliability and mission effectiveness to meet their national defense requirements," said Joe Garland, vice president of business development at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.
Armed with a penetrating blast-fragmentation warhead, JASSM is a stealthy, precision-guided cruise missile.
Produced at the company's manufacturing facility in Alabama, more than 1,700 JASSM cruise missiles have been delivered. (jh/rk)