The Missile Defense Agency is getting closer to naming a site for a European wing of ground-based interceptor missiles, said Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III, head of the Missile Defense Agency, at a conference in Huntsville, Ala., Tuesday. Likely candidates are Britain, the Czech Republic, or Poland. Obering told Reuters news service that the US would install 10 interceptors in Europe by 2011.
Sustainment of the F-35 is rapidly becoming the most profitable part of the program, as growing numbers of jets, bases and depots drive a greater demand for parts and services, top Lockheed Martin officials said in an April 20 corporate earnings call. The comments come against a backdrop of criticism…