Teledyne to build zombie targets
Teledyne’s subsidiary Teledyne Brown Engineering has received a $79.6 million task order from the US Army to design and build flexible target missiles for test and evaluation purposes, the company announced on 15 June.
The contract will see company develop realistic-threat ballistic target missiles, known as zombie targets, for use in testing advance missile defence systems. Zombie targets are manufactured or recreated in part from dead legacy government-owned components that have reached the end of their useful life or may be subject to demilitarisation. In this way they provide a low-cost solution with threat-representative capabilities necessary to test the effectiveness of missile defence assets.
Jan Hess, president of Teledyne Brown Engineering, said: ‘A great deal of our company’s legacy is built upon leading and supporting missile defence programmes, including target and countermeasures development, and the test and evaluation of complex systems. Given current and emerging threats to global security, we are proud to provide these systems that will help support the defence of our nation and our allies.’
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