The Peruvian Navy, one of MBDA’s most long-standing international partners, achieved an important milestone with the firing of an EXOCET MM 40 Block B3 missile during a naval exercise named ARES, held in July 2025. Organised in Mar De Grau and bringing together various attendees from Peruvian Navy, this exercise aimed to demonstrate their strong operational to implement their weapon systems.

This demanding exercise staged more of 50 nautical miles off the Peruvian coast, provided an opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of MBDA’s EXOCET family of missiles, with a launch deployed from BAP BOLOGNESI frigate.

Following the 2021 exercise named “UNITAS 2021”, this success underscored not only the Peruvian Navy’s mastery of the system – who holds the record of the maximum range of fire at 172km - but also the continued innovation behind MBDA’s iconic missile.

For MBDA and its teams, witnessing and supporting this firing is both a validation of decades of engineering excellence and a celebration of their trusted partnership with Peru, started more than 50 years ago with the acquisition of MM38 EXOCET.  

The EXOCET family continues to stand as a flagship weapon system, combining innovation, reliability, and operational versatility. MBDA launched recently the EXOCET MM40 BLOCK B3c, the latest generation ship-borne variant within the EXOCET family, providing a very long-range capability, in all weather conditions and in highly challenging Electronic Warfare environment, ensuring a tactical flexibility, and a high penetration against the most strongly defended surface targets.

These advancements have ensured the EXOCET’s relevance in modern naval combat, offering the best capabilities against evolving maritime threats.