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  • Press Releases

    Successful MMP firing with target designation made by a Novadem drone

    19 Jan 2021

    MBDA has carried out the first demonstration of the operational capabilities of LYNKEUS Dismounted, comprising the MMP system in "infantry" configuration and a Novadem NX70 drone linked via radio to its weapon terminal.

    Carried out with the support...
  • Press Releases

    UK orders production of MBDA’s SPEAR mini-cruise missile

    5 Jan 2021
    MBDA has received a contract valued at £550 million for production of the SPEAR missile system from the UK Ministry of Defence. SPEAR (known in UK service as SPEAR3) is a first-of-class network enabled miniature cruise missile.

    SPEAR will be the...
  • Press Releases

    Plus de 500 recrutements en CDI chez MBDA pour 2021

    5 Jan 2021
    MBDA France poursuit ses projets malgré la crise et maintient un important plan de recrutement afin d’honorer ses engagements et commandes auprès de l’État français et de ses clients exports. Confiant dans la pérennité de son activité, l’entreprise...
  • Innovation

    The potential of AI in the battlefield

    15 Dec 2020
    Always further, always higher, always stronger and above all, always more accurate. The needs of our armed forces, and the reality of the theatres in which they operate, require continuous improvement in the capabilities of our products. To defend...
  • Press Releases

    First firing of a Medium-Range Missile (MMP) from a Sabre special forces vehicle

    27 Nov 2020
    MBDA has carried out the first firing of an MMP missile from an ARQUUS Sabre special forces vehicle, as part of a firing campaign implemented with the support of the French Army and of the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA - French Procurement...
  • Press Releases

    MBDA completes qualification firing trials of the Sea Venom/ANL missile

    26 Nov 2020
    The Sea Venom/ANL anti-ship missile has completed its qualification firings trials, with a successful final firing at the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) test site at Ile du Levant on 17 November.
    Soon to start equipping the Royal Navy’s...
  • Innovation

    MBDA to contribute to the foundations of a European source of Field Programmable Gate Arrays

    20 Nov 2020
    Early in November, the European Defence Agency (EDA) announced the implementation of EXCEED, the last of the three defence research projects selected under the 2018 call for proposals for the EU Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PADR). EXCEED...
  • Press Releases

    MBDA to develop the combat missile for the Tiger helicopter

    13 Nov 2020
    Bourges, 13 November 2020:

    French Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly has announced that MBDA is to develop the Future Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile (MAST-F) program as the main French Army air to ground armament for the Tiger combat...
  • Events

    Be the Difference - This is Engineering Day 2020

    4 Nov 2020
    UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering calls on engineering community to show young people how they can ‘Be the difference’ This is Engineering Day 2020, on Wednesday 4 November, is themed ‘Be the difference’ and engineering companies, organisations and...
  • Press Releases

    Exocet SM39 et MdCN tirés depuis le nouveau sous-marin français « Suffren »

    22 Oct 2020
    Communiqué de presse du Ministère des Armées :

    Florence Parly se félicite du succès du premier tir de missile de croisière naval par le sous-marin nucléaire d’attaque Suffren

    • Le 20 octobre 2020, le Suffren, premier de série des six sous-marins...
  • Press Releases

    Exocet SM39 and MdCN firings from the new French submarine "Suffren"

    22 Oct 2020
    Press Release from the French Ministry of the armed forces:


    Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly hails the success of the first naval cruise missile launch by the nuclear-powered attack submarine Suffren

    • On October 20, 2020, the Suffren, the...
  • 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...