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{{Short description|British defense contractor}}
{{For|the pharmaceutical company|Insys Therapeutics}}
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'''INSYS''' was formed in October 2001 by a [[management buy-out]] of '''Hunting Engineering''' and was subsequently acquired by Lockheed Martin UK Holdings, Ltd., a subsidiary of [[Lockheed Martin|Lockheed Martin Corporation]] in October 2005.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lockheed Martin UK INSYS Celebrates 50 Years Supporting The United Kingdom's Armed Forces|url=http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/uk/news/press-releases/2007-press-releases/insys-50years.html|publisher=Lockheed Martin UK|accessdate=8 October 2012|date=5 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121211024348/http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/uk/news/press-releases/2007-press-releases/insys-50years.html|archive-date=11 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

INSYS's products included lightweight [[anti-tank]] weapons such as the [[LAW 80]] or the [[BL755]] [[cluster bomb]]s. As part of Lockheed Martin UK it undertakes the certification and supply of the [[WAH-64 Apache]] helicopter munitions.<ref>{{cite web|title=LONGBOW FCR and LONGBOW HELLFIRE Missile|url=http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/uk/what-we-do/products/LONGBOWFCRandLONGBOWHELLFIREMissile.html|publisher=Lockheed Martin UK|accessdate=8 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029031118/http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/uk/what-we-do/products/LONGBOWFCRandLONGBOWHELLFIREMissile.html|archive-date=29 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Support equipment includes the in-service and future Biological Detection Systems,<ref>{{cite web|title=Integrated Biological Detection System|url=http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/uk/what-we-do/products/IntegratedBiologicalDetectionSystem.html|publisher=Lockheed Martin UK|accessdate=8 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121054032/http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/uk/what-we-do/products/IntegratedBiologicalDetectionSystem.html|archive-date=21 November 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>  [[field hospital]]s, power generation and supply.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/ Lockheed Martin UK]

[[Category:British companies established in 2001]]
[[Category:Companies based in Bedfordshire]]
[[Category:Defence companies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Science and technology in Bedfordshire]]


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