Pentagon’s weapon supplier Lockheed Martin shares ad promoting its top secret Skunk Works project which appears to show simulated US airstrike on Russian weapons system
- Lockheed Martins’s promo shows what appears to be a simulated strike on Russian missile defense system S-400
- Ad also shows animation of pre-emptive strike against Russia’s Topol-M mobile intercontinental ballistic missile system
- Video highlights the accomplishment of Lockheed’s secretive Research and Development subdivision Skunk Works
- Former after World War II, Skunk Works was responsible for creating U-2 spy plane to gathered intelligence over Soviet Union
Manufacturing giant Lockheed Martin has released a promotional video showing what appears to be a simulated strike on Russian weapons systems.
The ad highlights the mission of Lockheed’s classified Research and Development subdivision known as ‘Skunk Works,’ which it says has been creating autonomous vehicles for more than 60 years.
Lockheed Martin is the US Defense Department’s top supplier of advanced aerospace technology.
Lockheed Martin has released a promotional video showing what appears to be a simulated strike on Russian missile defense system S-400
The animation also seems to show a strike against Russia’s Topol-M mobile intercontinental ballistic missile system
The ad highlights the mission of Lockheed’s classified Research and Development subdivision known as ‘Skunk Works’
Toward the end of the slickly produced clip featuring a dramatic soundtrack, computer animation seems to show a strike of US forces against a Russian S-400 missile defense system and a Topol-M mobile intercontinental ballistic missile system, according to reporting by defence-blog.com.
Russia’s S-400 missile system is considered one of the most formidable air defense systems in the world.
As the video shows computer-generated footage of US forces’ pre-emptive strike against Russian weaponry, the narrator talks about ‘ever-evolving threats’ and invokes Lockheed Martin’s mission to ‘redefine the battle space.’
The video puts on display various autonomous planes currently being designed by engineers at Skunk Works ‘in near-secrecy,’ as well as existing F-35 supersonic fighter jets.
‘We are developing solutions that are survivable,’ the voiceover in the promo boasts. ‘Evolving war-fighting through flight demonstrations, synchronizing weapons systems for advanced battle management.’
The video puts on display various autonomous planes currently being designed by engineers at Skunk Works ‘in near-secrecy’
In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized Skunk Works to build a spy plane that could ‘fly high enough to be out of the line of fire of Soviet surface-to-air missiles.’ Above, Kelly Johnson, the chief designer of the U-2, standing next to the spy plane in 1960
Officially called Advanced Development Research, Skunk Works was a classified subdivision of Lockheed Martin founded during World War II to build a fighter jet.
During the Cold War in the 1950s, Skunk Works designed and developed a spy plane, the legendary U-2, that could soar at 70,000 feet to avoid Soviet missiles to gather intelligence.
It later built the faster Blackbird jet that could fly at 85,000 feet.
More recently, Lockheed’s elite R&D outfit was responsible for creating Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.