Human-cost band
not a war -- a firm; human cost sits in the wars that bought the products
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale44
Intensity25
Duration68
Tech shift70
Political impact55
Cultural memory38
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Quick answers
Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
What is Skunk Works?
Lockheed's advanced-development organisation, associated with Kelly Johnson and later Ben Rich, and with types such as the U-2 and SR-71. A historical shop, not a visitor workshop.
What did Martin bring?
Bomber heritage and, as Martin Marietta, Titan missiles and space contracting -- the other half of the hyphen.
Why does Korea appear here?
Because ROK purchases of Lockheed types (notably F-16 and F-35) are a dated alliance-industrial story. See also the ROK military page.
Is the F-35 "history"?
Its procurement and politics are already a thick public file. Performance claims stay out of this encyclopedia except as disputed hearing objects.
Who is Kelly Johnson?
The engineer-manager name of mid-century Skunk Works. Memoir fame exceeds any single airframe.
Crash scandals (F-104 in Germany) and overrun hearings are the public cost file. War dead sit on the war pages of the types' users.
A prime's "cost" is also a jobs map in California, Texas, Georgia, and partner states.
Bands
Dated span (1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912))
Lockheed Martin is taught as 1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912). 1912 and 2013-20 are the usual poles.
Theatre (US plants and Pentagon offices; export .)
US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth is the geography of the ledger -- cities, seas, plants, or ministries as the file requires.
U-2 first flight
1955: A reconnaissance political object.
F-35 procurement politics
2001-15: Concurrency and hearings.
Regions
US plants and Pentagon offices
Core theatre of Lockheed Martin (1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912)). The California ancestor.
Two aircraft firms
1912-45: Martin and Lockheed as separate stories.
Consolidation
1991-95: The merger season.
Services and exports
After 2015: ROK and other customers as news.
US / UK / AU / CA classrooms
Lockheed Martin appears in English as a procurement or export-hearing name, not as a civic museum story.
Korean comparative reader
Lockheed Martin is read beside Yulgok, Hanwha, and ROK procurement history: a type or firm in a conscript-alliance state, not a live ORBAT.
Key numbers
Span1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Ma.
Cost bandnot a war -- a firm; human cost sits in.
TheatreUS plants and Pentagon offices; export .
Hero articleLockheed Martin
Makers
Allan Lockheed
Allan Lockheed (Founder) is a named maker of the Lockheed Martin story. The name on the California firm -- spelling later standardised without the hyphen in some tellings.
Glenn L. Martin
Glenn L. Martin (Founder) is a named maker of the Lockheed Martin story. The 1912 ancestor whose bombers and later missile firm fill the other half of the merger.
Kelly Johnson
Kelly Johnson (Engineer) is a named maker of the Lockheed Martin story. Skunk Works manager-designer of the memoir age -- U-2 and SR-71 as the English stills.
Ben Rich
Ben Rich (Engineer / memoirist) is a named maker of the Lockheed Martin story. Johnson's successor and the other English textbook of the shop.
Norman R. Augustine
Norman R. Augustine (Executive) is a named maker of the Lockheed Martin story. Martin Marietta / Lockheed Martin figure and author of the consolidation-era industry essays.
Daniel M. Tellep
Daniel M. Tellep (Executive) is a named maker of the Lockheed Martin story. A Lockheed chairman name on the merger paperwork.
Offset deals move some of that map to the ROK -- a political fact.
Do not price a human ledger in unit cost.