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Lockheed Martin Corporation is the world’s largest aerospace, defense contractor, and military-industrial complex anchor. Serving as the primary strategic foundation for the US Department of Defense, it maintains a near-monopoly over fifth-generation air superiority fighters (F-35 Lightning II), high-altitude missile defense shields, tactical rocketry, and high-velocity hypersonic weapons, insulated by state-sanctioned sovereign defense mandates.