Talk:MBDA

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MBDA is the only Group capable of designing and producing missiles and missile systems to meet the whole range of current and future operational requirements for the three armed forces (army, navy, air force). Overall, the Group offers a range of 45 products in service and another 15 in development.

MBDA has demonstrated its ability to bring together the best skills across the whole of Europe, and has succeeded in becoming the prime contractor for a series of strategic multi-national programmes. These include the six-nation Meteor air superiority weapon, the Franco-British conventionally armed cruise missile, Storm Shadow/SCALP, and a family of air defence systems based on the Aster missile for France and Italy (for ground and naval based air defence) and for the UK (naval air defence for the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers).

Other programmes such as MEADS place MBDA at the heart of the European defence sector as well as establishing cooperative transatlantic links with the principal groups in the US defence industry. MBDA operates in all major world markets and is the only company in its sector able to design and produce guided weapon systems for land-based, naval and airborne requirements. Now a standalone company in its own right, it has more than 70 global customers. While consolidation in the sector was behind this merger, the entity that has been created better reflects developments within the worldwide industry, according to the company.

The Manufacturer magazine says that MBDA's new-found strength lies in that it has at its heart Europe’s top guided weapons design and production centres united by strong transnational programmes such as the Storm Shadow/SCALP stand-off cruise missile family, the Meteor advanced generation beyond visual range air-to-air missile and the Aster family of anti-missile missile systems.