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'''MBDA''' is a multi-national group, and a world leader in missile systems and has nearly 10,000 employees across Europe and the USA.  MBDA has three main shareholders in defence and aeronautical systems – [[BAE]] Systems (37.5%), [[EADS]](37.5%) and Finmeccanica (25%).  The [[MBDA]]  website reports a turnover of 2.6 Billion Euros and produced over 3000 missiles. Furthermore, [[MBDA]] works with over 90 armed forces worldwide. <ref>[http://www.mbda.co.uk MDBA website], accessed November 2010</ref>
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'''MBDA''' is a multinational group and a world leader in missile systems with nearly 10,000 employees across Europe and the USA.[[File:Brimstone-Typhoon11 MBDA.jpg|thumb|400px|right|''UK Integrating Brimstone 2 Missile onto Eurofighter Typhoon Fighter Jet: Source:MBDA'']]    
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==Shareholders==
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MBDA has three main shareholders in defence and aeronautical systems – the global arms company [[BAE Systems]] (37.5%), Europe's largest aerospace firm in Europe [[EADS]] (37.5%) and Italy’s second-largest industrial group [[Leonardo-Finmeccanica]] (25%).  In 2010 the MBDA website reported a turnover of 2.6 billion euros and production of over 3000 missiles. The group works with over 90 armed forces worldwide. <ref>[http://www.mbda.co.uk MDBA website], accessed November 2010</ref>
  
 
==Background==
 
==Background==
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[[File:Jack Lopresti MDBA DSEI2017.jpg|thumb| Conservative MP [[Jack Lopresti]] poses next to the MBDA's deadly Brimstone missile at DSEI 2017 in London.]] MBDA was created in December 2001, after the merger of the main missile producers in France, Italy and Great Britain. Each of these companies contributed the experience gained from 50 years of technological and operational success. The restructuring of the industry in Europe was completed with the acquisition of the German subsidiary EADS/LFK in March 2006. This further enriched MDBA’s range of technologies and products, consolidating the Group’s position.
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==MBDA weapons==
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The company produces the deadly Brimstone air-launched ground attack missile, which has been sold to Saudi Arabia and used over Yemen.
  
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MBDA operates in all of the 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 customers worldwide. 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.
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MBDA currently is leading a consortium to develop a high-energy laser weapon for use on both land and sea under a £30M contract for the MoD.  The UK Dragonfire group consortium includes MBDA, [[QinetiQ]] and Leonardo-Finmeccanica.<ref> [https://www.theengineer.co.uk/uk-dragonfire-consortium-to-develop-high-energy-laser-weapon/ UK Dragonfire consortium to develop high energy laser weapon], ''The Engineer'', 21 September 2016 , accessed 13 September 2017 </ref>
  
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Coming from such a distinguished background - [[BAE]] Systems is a global defence operator, [[EADS]] is the largest aerospace company in Europe and Finmeccanica is Italy’s second-largest industrial group - MBDA has a strong pedigree. But its 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.
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==Revolving door appointments==
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<ref>Hilda Howerd, [http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk/profile/471/MBDA_UK MBDA UK, Rocket science], April 2002, accessed 17 November 2010</ref>
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*[[Ivor Caplin]] former UK government defence minister acts as a consultant
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*[[Simon Moss]], former head of helicopters at the British [[MOD]]'s [[Defence Equipment and Support]] is now MBDA's head of 'portfolio capability development'.
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==Company Profile==
 
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MBDA was created in December 2001, after the merger of the main missile producers in France, Italy and Great Britain. Each of these companies contributed the experience gained from fifty years of technological and operational success. The restructuring of the industry in Europe was completed with the acquisition of the German subsidiary EADS/LFK in March 2006. This further enriched MDBA’s range of technologies and products, consolidating the Group’s world-leading position in the industry.
 
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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.  
 
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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).
 
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Other programmes such as MEADS further serve to position 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.
 
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<ref>[http://www.mbda.net MDBA website]MBDA Website accessed 16th November 2010</ref>
 
  
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==People==
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==Parliamentary groups==
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*[[Ivor Caplin]] former UK government defence minister acts as a consultant
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*[[All-Party Parliamentary Group on Armed Forces‎‎]] - financial sponsor through annual membership
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*[[Simon Moss]], former head of helicopters at MOD Defence Equipment and Support
 
  
 
==PR and lobbying firms==
 
==PR and lobbying firms==
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*[[Lodestone Communications]]<ref> Lodestone Communications [http://lodestonecommunications.com/our-clients/ Our clients], accessed 27 July 2015.</ref>
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*[[Lodestone Communications]] (circa 2015)<ref> Lodestone Communications [http://lodestonecommunications.com/our-clients/ Our clients], accessed 27 July 2015.</ref>
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*[[Whitehall Advisers]]
  
 
==Contacts==
 
==Contacts==

Latest revision as of 03:03, 26 March 2018

MBDA is a multinational group and a world leader in missile systems with nearly 10,000 employees across Europe and the USA.

UK Integrating Brimstone 2 Missile onto Eurofighter Typhoon Fighter Jet: Source:MBDA

Shareholders

MBDA has three main shareholders in defence and aeronautical systems – the global arms company BAE Systems (37.5%), Europe's largest aerospace firm in Europe EADS (37.5%) and Italy’s second-largest industrial group Leonardo-Finmeccanica (25%). In 2010 the MBDA website reported a turnover of 2.6 billion euros and production of over 3000 missiles. The group works with over 90 armed forces worldwide. [1]

Background

Conservative MP Jack Lopresti poses next to the MBDA's deadly Brimstone missile at DSEI 2017 in London.

MBDA was created in December 2001, after the merger of the main missile producers in France, Italy and Great Britain. Each of these companies contributed the experience gained from 50 years of technological and operational success. The restructuring of the industry in Europe was completed with the acquisition of the German subsidiary EADS/LFK in March 2006. This further enriched MDBA’s range of technologies and products, consolidating the Group’s position.

MBDA weapons

The company produces the deadly Brimstone air-launched ground attack missile, which has been sold to Saudi Arabia and used over Yemen.

MBDA currently is leading a consortium to develop a high-energy laser weapon for use on both land and sea under a £30M contract for the MoD. The UK Dragonfire group consortium includes MBDA, QinetiQ and Leonardo-Finmeccanica.[2]

Revolving door appointments

Parliamentary groups

PR and lobbying firms

Contacts

http://www.mbda.co.uk

References

  1. ↑ MDBA website, accessed November 2010
  2. ↑ UK Dragonfire consortium to develop high energy laser weapon, The Engineer, 21 September 2016 , accessed 13 September 2017
  3. ↑ Lodestone Communications Our clients, accessed 27 July 2015.
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