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“The North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea is our playground where we have to fight against enemy submarines, and this is our major role — fighting enemy submarines,” Germany’s Cpt. Broder Nielsen told reporters.
Italy is sponsoring integration of the ramjet powered weapon on the F-35A, while the UK is leading integration on the F-35B model.
The “objective” of the future company is to “really increase our presence in the Middle East …,” Patrice Hajjar, MBDA’s vice president for the Middle East, told reporters.
The pursuit of a new, long-range strike capability had been revealed by London and Berlin, but today marks the first time the two capitals have committed to a timeline.
In a first, France and the UK, Europe’s only nuclear powers, also signed a declaration today stating that “the respective deterrents of both countries are independent but can be co-ordinated and that there is no extreme threat to Europe that woul…
The kamikaze drone, integrated with a 40kg warhead, jet engine and capable of flying at a range of 500km, has been under development since December 2024.
Eric Béranger said uncertainty in historical alliances is showing that MBDA’s joint European model is “proving relevant.”
Here’s just a bit of what the Breaking Defense team saw on the show floor this year.
Leonardo’s approach mirrors a similar effort that saw the Falco Evo, upon which the Falco Xplorer is based, developed into the “Astore” armed UAV in 2017.
MBDA company executives told media that the Aquila concept has support from partner nations France, Italy, Germany and The Netherlands, who will be collectively responsible for agreeing on a final design at the end of a three-year concept phase.