JohnAbrams21 I stand corrected and missed this in reviewing my own refs. Did some more digging and the "swag" seems to be late 2002 to early 2005 but most point to 2002. The loss of the HAWK III left the CORPS without a medium range system. This was later filled by the PATRIOT system hence I believe the "swag" in the dates by a couple of sources. The ARMY appears to be an allie in supporting the CORPS in maintaining a med to long range system, hence the MEADS system. MEADS is being jointly developed with Germany and Italy.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/.../corps-sam.htm this discusses that intial process. These are more up to date concerning MEADS itself.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/meads.htm and
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/...eads-chron.htm
Regards,
Pat
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