Germany could go alone and make MEADS operational by 2018

Wolfram Lautner, a spokesman for MBDA Deutschland, told Defense News that Germany could spend up to €3 billion to go it alone on the MEADS air defense system.

The system will be adapted to suit German needs and integrated with the Iris-T missile. It will be operational by 2018.

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