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  • Contracts

    MBDA to equip Senegalese offshore patrol vessels with MARTE MK2/N anti-ship missiles, SIMBAD-RC system and MISTRAL missiles

    22 Oct 2020
    On 21 October General Birame DIOP, Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Senegal, and Admiral Oumar WADE, Chief of Staff of the Navy of Senegal, attended the steel-cutting ceremony of the first of three offshore patrol vessels ordered by...
  • Media

    Founding father of MBDA Mario di Donato passed away

    15 Sep 2020
    On 9th September 2020, Mario di Donato passed away at the age of 78. Mario was a founding father of MBDA, appointed Chief Operating Officer following the company’s creation in 2001. This was alongside being Chairman of MBDA Italia, a role he held his...
  • Events

    Innovation award for Fast Targeting team

    2 Sep 2020
    Innovation is a core value at MBDA. One that ensures the strategic and operational advantage of all the nations we work with. That is why at MBDA we encourage a culture of innovation in our people and recognize their efforts annually with our...
  • Corporate and Social Responsability

    MBDA - right alongside our clients throughout the pandemic

    17 Jul 2020
    90% of our Field Technicians decided to remain right alongside our clients. At MBDA, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, we immediately rolled out a set of measures to ensure the safety and health of our people. In the case of those working abroad, we...
  • Innovation

    Getting an engineer’s eye view from behind a keyboard

    15 Jun 2020
    How smart glasses are connecting MBDA colleagues throughout Europe Innovation is part of the MBDA’s values , ensuring strategic and operational advantage. The COVID crisis has meant the need to accelerate some of the innovative solutions to problems...
  • COVID

    Corporate and Social Responsability

    Undisrupted support to our home nations and export customers

    4 May 2020
    In France, we closed our sites for two weeks to comply with stringent health measures to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, our people in France explain the reasons why they were eager to come back to work and their motivation for contributing to...
  • Solutions

    Northrop Grumman, MBDA and Saab demonstrate the integration of CAMM into Integrated Air and Missile Defence battle manager

    26 Nov 2019
    MBDA’s CAMM family is the next generation of air defence missiles for multi-domain applications. Designed to defeat the most challenging of modern and future threats. Northrop Grumman Corporation, MBDA and Saab have successfully completed a joint...
  • Artificial Intelligence

    Innovation

    Using Artificial Intelligence to help decide the best combat tactics

    12 Jul 2019
    In December 2017 artificial intelligence (AI) computer program AlphaZero beat the best chess, go and shogi (Japanese chess) games programs after just a couple hours of training itself. This inspired MBDA’s researchers to believe that “machine...
  • Innovation

    MBDA unveils its vision of Future Air Systems

    17 Jun 2019
    Le Bourget 17th June 2019. MBDA presents for the first time its vision of the capabilities that will lie at the heart of the next generation of European air combat systems. Read more Contact us
  • Media

    Éric Béranger appointed as CEO of MBDA

    15 May 2019
    Éric Béranger is to be MBDA’s new Chief Executive Officer, with effect from 1 June 2019, replacing Antoine Bouvier. Over the past 20 years Éric has worked in a number of senior positions in Airbus Defence and Space, and most lately led Global...
  • Human Resources

    Féminisons les métiers de l’aéronautique

    25 Mar 2019
    Dans le cadre du concours national « Féminisons les métiers de l’aéronautique » organisé par AIREMPLOI, MBDA France a accueilli 2 groupes de lycéennes. Ces visites avaient pour objet de faire découvrir nos métiers et casser les préjugés sur notre...
  • Events

    MBDA’s order backlog reaches record high after strong 2018 results

    19 Mar 2019
    MBDA saw another strong year of trading performance in 2018, recording a further €4.0 billion in orders that brought the company’s order book up to a record total of €17.4 billion. Revenue was also slightly ahead year-on-year to €3.2 billion. Read...