About John Clark
At the Eurosatory 2018 trade show in Paris, John Clark, then director of international business development for Lockheed Martin, presented several of the company's land and air systems. He described the Javelin missile as a man-portable system effective against any known armor with an unclassified range of 2.5 kilometers, and the Hellfire missile as associated with the Apache helicopter. Clark also highlighted the Inferno system as a new product, an EO/IR system with a laser detector for guiding laser-guided weapons. He discussed long-range precision fire systems, stating the Attack missile has an unclassified range of up to 300 kilometers and the GMLRS a classified range of 84 kilometers, both used with the multiple launch rocket system or HIMARS.
Clark also presented a family of integrated air and missile defense systems, including the PAC 3 missile with the Patriot system, the THAAD missile, and the Miniature Hit-to-Kill missile. He said the Miniature Hit-to-Kill missile would be effective against rockets, mortar rounds, and counter UAVs, employing hit-to-kill technology. Clark characterized the show as successful, with high-level delegations from around the world and smaller suppliers hoping to work with Lockheed Martin.
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Bonjour from Paris, France. I'm John Clark, director of international business development for Lockheed Martin, and we're at Eurosatory, one of the world's largest trade shows. We're seeing delegations from all over the world here to discuss with us land systems and air systems. Our theme, as you can see up top, is that Lockheed Martin is engineering a better tomorrow, and we have brought several of our products with us today. For example, here is the Javelin missile. It's a man-portable system; one soldier can carry it and launch the missile. It's effective against any known armor, and it's unclassified range out to 2.5 kilometers. Over here behind me is our Hellfire missile, which is associated with our Apache helicopter. Here we have our Inferno system. It's an EO/IR system, it's a 15-inch ball, and it also has a laser detector so we can guide laser-guided weapons. Inferno is one of our newest products. We've been having a very successful show. I've been very impressed with the amount of delegations we've had from all over the world, very high-level delegations all the way down to some of the smaller suppliers that hope to work with Lockheed Martin, and we enjoy meeting with customers very much. Here are some of our long-range precision fire systems: the GMLRS and the ATACMS. Both of these missiles go with our Multiple Launch Rocket System or also our HIMARS, our High Mobility System, and they're effective. The ATACMS missile has an unclassified range of up to 300 kilometers, while GMLRS has an unclassified range of 84 kilometers. We also brought models with us from these different systems, and this here is the Multiple Launch Rocket System. You can see it has 12 canisters for the GMLRS rocket and the HIMARS vehicle. As we walk around the backside of our booth here, this is our family of integrated air and missile defense systems. We have on the top the PAC-3 missile, it's with the Patriot system, and under that is the larger missile, the Theater High Altitude Area Defense or THAAD missile, and the very small missile at the end, aptly named, is the Miniature Hit-to-Kill missile. I'm going to pick it up here. This is actually scaled one to one, as all these missiles are. This Miniature Hit-to-Kill missile will be effective against rockets and mortar rounds as well as counter UAVs, and this is one of our newest systems employing our hit-to-kill technology. Thank you very much for visiting Lockheed Martin today during our time here at Eurosatory.
