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On Wednesday 22 March 2023 the French Navy’s Lorraine multi-mission frigate enhanced with air defence capabilities (FREMM DA) successfully fired the Aster 30 air defence missile. This type of firing against targets representative of current threats...

MBDA held its annual press conference in Paris today, 15 March, and presented the group’s achievements in 2022 and the challenges to come. Éric Béranger, CEO of MBDA, said: “ At MBDA, co-operation is our strength: the union of countries, of cultures...

The CLEE Project, funded by the French Defence Innovation Agency in October 2022 and led by Alysophil, MBDA and Inria, is aimed at the continuous-flow* production of high-energy liquid fuels, as well as new fuels, driven by artificial intelligence...

MBDA’s AKERON MP missile has been fired from the BAE Systems Hägglunds CV90 infantry combat vehicle at a test range in Northern Sweden, in the presence of representatives of the Swedish Armed Forces. AKERON is a unique family of fifth-generation...

MBDA and its partners in the DragonFire consortium have successfully carried out the first static high power laser firing of a sovereign UK capability at the Dstl’s range in Porton Down on 17th October 2022. Using QinetiQ’s phase-combined laser...

Safran Electronics & Defense and MBDA have completed the acquisition of ArianeGroup’s 63% majority stake in CILAS, a French company specialized in lasers for military applications. The acquisition was carried out through a joint company created for...

Nexter and MBDA now offer a configuration of the NARWHAL (NAval Remote Weapon, Highly Accurate, Lightweight) turret that includes two pods of AKERON MP missiles This configuration allows for easy installation on any version of the NARWHAL turret...

MBDA and MILTECH have signed an R&D contract in the field of novel infrared stealth materials for military applications, in collaboration with the University of Patras. This contract falls under the co-operation programme associated with the FDI HN...

©MBDA – Laurent Guichardon MBDA and its partners of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) LynkEUs project gathered in Cyprus on the 28^th and 29^th of September to deliver static and dynamic presentations, and firing...

MBDA welcomes the signing, on 4th October, of a Polish-UK governmental agreement to co-operate on air defence missiles and outlining the scale of industrial co-operation for the NAREW ground based air defence (GBAD) programme. The signing at the...

MBDA’s new surface-to-surface fires capabilities for the British Army are being showcased for the first time at Defence Vehicles Dynamics (DVD) 2022. MBDA’s ‘Land Precision Fires Family’ comprising Surface-Launched Brimstone and Land Precision Strike...

PGZ and its subsidiaries, PIT-RADWAR, JELCZ and WZU, working hand-in-hand with MBDA have been making rapid progress on the short-range air defence (SHORAD) solution, known as “Mała NAREW”, with the first two Polish iLaunchers of the system already in...