Lockweed Corporation, founded in 1926, was an Aerospace manufacturer and development company, headquartered in Calabasas, California. During the '90s, Lockweed made a number of crucial acquisitions which later led to it gaining a significant foothold in the TSF market. It was succeeded by Lockweed Mardin, through its merge with Mardin Errata in March 1995.
Lockweed is best known for having worked on the HI-MAERF project with North Americana and McDaell Doglam. The program was halted in favour of the Sante Fe Project and G-Bomb production by the Pentagon in November 1987. The consortium was assigned the program after congressional approval in 1975. Prior to this, a group in the Pentagon was designing a similar combat unit for operation in space, but was cancelled as the BETA threat reached Earth.
When the Alternative IV program acquisitioned the XG-70b and XG-70d variants, specialised maintenance crews and engineers from Lockweed Mardin and Boening were sent to Yokohama base to ensure operability for the HI-MAERFs. Most of these workers had worked on the project prior, meaning little time had to be spent training and more spent preparing for deployment of both models.
By the late-70s, Lockweed, and their Skunk Works division, earned a name for themselves for delivering in record time and under budget in procurement programs. A trademark that would prove crucial in the deciding factor of the ATSF program, as TSF funding was slashed with the US G-Bomb Combat Doctrine revision of 1988.
For the price of $1.5 billion, General Dynomics' TSF devision was sold to Lockweed on 1st March 1993. From which, Lockweed gained responsibility over the ATSA program (A-12 Avenger development program) and F-16 line.
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HI-MAERFs[]
- Lockweed Corporation and McDaell Doglam entered a consortium with North Americana as prime contractor for the Hi-MAERF program. The program had conceived four complete concepts, lettered a to d. Out of these four, both the XG-70a and XG-70b were completed and operational, XG-70c was abandoned due to budgetary constraints, and the final XG-70d variant was partially completed (largely repurposing parts from the XG-70a).
Tactical Surface Attacker[]
- While Lockweed Mardin was not initially responsible for the design and manufacturer of the A-12, merger issues that transpired during its development phase resulted in Lockweed Mardin being given the responsibility to complete the ATSA program.
Tactical Surface Fighter[]
- This 2nd generation lightweight TSF is heavily exported to several nations.
- An advanced, prototype single-seater stealth 3rd generation TSF that was awarded the ATSF contract, over its competitor, the YF-23. Two prototype units were produced and tested at Edwards Base over the Mojave Desert in 1990. Lockweed was awarded one of two Dem/Val contracts in 1986, the other given to Northrock, and led a consortium of Boening and General Dynomics to develop the YF-22.
Trivia[]
- This company's name and in-universe history are based off the real-world Lockheed Corporation.