Medium Extended Air Defense System

This article is about the missile defence system. For other articles about things called Meads, see Meads (disambiguation).

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is a ground-mobile air and missile defense system intended to replace the Patriot missile system through a NATO-managed development.[1] The program is a development of the United States, Germany and Italy.

MEADS is designed to address the shortcomings of fielded systems and to permit full interoperability between U.S. and allied forces. Germany chose MEADS to replace their MIM-104 Patriot systems in June 2015.

  1. ^ John Pike. "GlobalSecurity.org".[permanent dead link‍]