Lockheed Martin is a leading experienced provider of threat realistic missile targets and countermeasures. We’re creating sophisticated solutions to fit our customers’ missions.

For more than 25 years, we have been building targets with short, medium, intermediate, and long-range capability to represent real-world threats. These targets are used to test missile defense systems and to fulfill specific test objectives.

 

Building ballistic missile target vehicles and payloads is rocket science and to test systems’ end-to-end capability, you need a target! These targets are launched to test, verify, and validate missile defense systems’ performance. They are not meant to be operationally fielded—they remain test assets, helping our customers get equipped to confront their greatest challenges.

Lockheed Martin designs, tests, and produces countermeasures that can be deployed during testing. Countermeasures are used by potential adversaries in an attempt to “confuse” defense systems. It is critical that our defensive systems discern the real threats versus the countermeasures and we provide our customer with the ability to thoroughly test the system.

Lockheed Martin Target solutions enable a robust test regime that stresses the architecture, system design, and performance of the Missile Defense System. This includes tests against known and emerging threats in realistic, operational-like scenarios.

 

Our targets help our customers prepare, protect, and prevail. It is essential to test defensive systems within the Missile Defense System, to assure they are ready to handle and negate the threats they’re likely to encounter operationally. Targets play a critical role and, at Lockheed Martin, our targets are threat-representative reentry vehicles for other missile target providers, as well as mission support and execution services.