MBDA Systems

Wednesday 18/11/2009 16:00

Former Southampton University student Greg Smith (graduated 2008) is coming to talk.

MBDA, a world leader in missiles and missile systems, is a multi-national group with over 10,000 employees in France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany. MBDA has three major aeronautical and defence shareholders – BAE Systems (37.5%), EADS (37.5%) and Finmeccanica (25%), and is the first truly integrated European defence company. In 2008, the Group recorded a turnover of 2.7 billion euros, produced over 3,000 missiles and achieved an order book of 11.9 billion euros. MBDA works with over 90 armed forces worldwide.

MBDA has demonstrated its ability to bring together the best skills across the whole of Europe, and has succeeded in becoming the prime contractor for a series of strategic multi-national programmes. These include the six-nation Meteor air superiority weapon, the Franco-British conventionally armed cruise missile, Storm Shadow/SCALP, and a family of air defence systems based on the Aster missile for France and Italy (for ground and naval based air defence) and for the UK (naval air defence for the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers).

Other programmes such as MEADS further serve to position MBDA at the heart of the European defence sector as well as establishing cooperative transatlantic links with the principal groups in the US defence industry.

This lecture will be in Lecture Theatre A of the Geography building.

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