Full protection - 360-degree radar arrives after rough lesson in Baghdad

摘要

Lockheed Martin is scheduled to finish delivering the first batch of new mortar and rocket detecting radars to the Army in November, just shy of four years after the start of work. The first EQ-36 radar in what could be a dollar1 billion program was sent to Iraq in September, six years after the insurgent pounding at Baghdad airport that prompted the Army to launch a competition for rapid development of a better transportable radar. Lockheed reports that one or more of the radars also has been sent to Afghanistan -- the Army will not permit the company to say how many, and the service did not respond to inquiries.