{"id":66638,"date":"2024-01-18T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/01\/18\/lockheed-to-test-patriot-and-aegis-integration-in-live-fire-test\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:01:31","slug":"lockheed-to-test-patriot-and-aegis-integration-in-live-fire-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2024\/01\/18\/lockheed-to-test-patriot-and-aegis-integration-in-live-fire-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed to test Patriot and Aegis integration in live-fire test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Lockheed Martin will test this spring whether it can successfully integrate the U.S. Army\u2019s latest and most capable variant of the Patriot missile with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2022\/01\/20\/evolution-of-aegis-weapon-system-could-underpin-joint-all-domain-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Navy\u2019s Aegis Combat System.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end of the year, Lockheed will have spent roughly $100 million on the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) integration effort so far, according to Tom Copeman, vice president of naval systems within the company\u2019s missiles and fire control business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe U.S. Navy has capability and capacity gaps against advanced threats at sea,\u201d Copeman told Defense News in a Jan. 18 interview. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2022\/04\/27\/us-army-plan-to-replace-patriot-interceptors-gets-a-jolt-in-fy23-budget-request\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patriot <\/a>missile is \u201ca combat-proven weapon against advanced threats, against hypersonic [weapons].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The capability is \u201cdefinitely<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2023\/02\/08\/how-the-us-navy-is-creating-the-nirvana-of-one-combat-system\/\" target=\"_blank\"> complementary to what [the Navy has] today<\/a>,\u201d Shireen Melvin, director of integrated combat management within the company\u2019s rotary and mission systems business, said in the same interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lockheed in 2017 decided to pursue an upgraded capability that would allow it to avoid a typically lengthy and costly missile development schedule, Copeman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PAC-3 MSE<b>, <\/b>as the upgraded missile is known, already has a hot production line in Camden, Arkansas, that is currently ramping up to produce 550 missiles a year. The missile is typically fired from the U.S. Army\u2019s Patriot air-and-missile defense system. Lockheed has plans to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2023\/10\/09\/army-pursuit-of-new-air-and-missile-defense-interceptors-heating-up\/\" target=\"_blank\"> increase its production numbers <\/a>as it replenishes the stockpile of missiles sent to Ukraine since Russia invaded nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Missile Defense Agency provided the company with a small amount of funding early on to integrate PAC-3 MSE into its Aegis Ashore baseline capability. Aegis Ashore provides missile defense capability from a deckhouse on land. There is one operational Aegis Ashore in Romania and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2022\/03\/09\/construction-of-aegis-ashore-in-poland-nearing-completion\/\" target=\"_blank\"> another in Poland<\/a> that has yet to reach full operational capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That effort did not include a live-fire test, but rather a hardware-in-the-loop test in the fall of 2022 using Army launchers instead of Navy platforms at the Pacific Missile Range Facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lockheed then invested internally to integrate PAC-3 MSE to be fired from Aegis ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In summer 2023, Lockheed proved it could integrate PAC-3 MSE missiles with the Aegis SPY-1 radar, an integrated air-and-missile defense sensor, aboard Aegis capable ships. There are nearly 100 SPY-1 radars aboard Aegis cruisers and destroyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spring live-fire test will use a ground-launched vertical launch system rather than one on board Aegis ships, but is meant to demonstrate integration with the entire Aegis combat system, according to Copeman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the test is successful, he added, the company hopes the Navy or Defense Department will conduct further tests that could lead to an initial operational capability on a ship. \u201cAs of yet, that has not been funded by the DoD,\u201d Copeman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lockheed has also been involved in efforts with the Missile Defense Agency in recent years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2018\/10\/10\/so-patriot-and-thaad-will-talk-what-does-that-really-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\">to integrate the Patriot air-and-missile defense system and the Terminal High 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