July 25, 2008 & August 22, 2008
wevigilo July 21st, 2008
WEAPONS, BLOODSHED,
DEATH AND PAIN.
ALL TO INCREASE
LOCKHEED’S GAIN.
Shock and Awe struck
Marketing instruments of death is an extremely lucrative business and Lockheed Martin (LM) exploits it to the fullest. It is this planet’s largest peddler of war-making materials. The following summary illustrates how LM has penetrated every aspect of modern military might.
In the strategic area, LM is well known for its line of submarine-launched missiles, the latest of which is Trident. LM also manages the three national laboratories which design, develop, and manufacture
Other sea-based systems spring from LM drawing boards. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, managed by LM, performs research and development for Navy nuclear propulsion. LM’s computers are used on submarines and surface ships as is its naval electronics and surveillance systems. The Integrated Deep Water System Program refurbishes Coast Guard’s ships and aircraft (including helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles) – all with integrated command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Meanwhile, the P-3 antisubmarine aircraft patrols the oceans.
Aegis combat systems, including the AN/SPY-1 radar, are provided for guided missile ships by LM. These, as well as attack submarines, are also equipped with LM’s vertical launch system which can fire Tomahawk cruise missiles and Standard-2 anti-missile/anti-satellite interceptors. It was a Standard-2 fired from an Aegis ship that shot down the errant
LM produces the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) for army rocket artillery, the latest version of which is the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). Shoulder-fired Javelin anti-tank missiles are a joint venture between LM and Raytheon. (LM has also written software for Raytheon’s “Echelon” global surveillance network.)
Besides the F-117 stealth fighter, LM supports air war with F-16 and F/A-22 jets. It is also developing the controversial F-35 joint strike fighter. To get bombs on-target faster in support of ground troops, fighter jets are equipped with “Sniper” advanced targeting pods furnished by LM, with a downlink allowing ground troops to better defend themselves. LM has also deployed the Theater Battle Management Core System which is the key to modern air battle command and control.
Helicopters attack ground targets with 15 variants of the “Hellfire” missiles, all supplied by LM. To assure the “Hellfire” hits its target, the helicopters are equipped with LM’s “Arrowhead” infrared target acquisition system.
PAC-3 (Patriot Advanced Capability 3) interceptor missiles were developed and fielded by LM to hit enemy missiles and aircraft, destroying them with the impact.
LM builds many satellites. Milstar communications satellites (the sixth of which was put in orbit during April 2003 – just in time to support the
To extract information from detainees of Arab ancestry, LM has contracted interrogators to the
The foregoing itemization is by no means comprehensive. It only touches the high points to illustrate the extent of LM’s implacable activities. This vicious technology is also sold to many, many foreign nations. The net effect is wholesale slaughter and big bucks for LM shareholders. Those who sell their talents and labor to help LM make these instruments of destruction are also complicit in this mass extinction. There is no other way to express it. There is no way to deny this criminal fact.
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