Description:
Offers more than 40 missiles and missile systems. Arms the Eurofighter.
The holding company is MBDA, which is the first fully integrated, pan European defence company and is owned equally by BAE Systems (37.5%), EADS (37.5%) and Finmeccanica (25%). The Company is a world leading missile systems company with an annual turnover of 2 billion Euros, an order book of 15 billion Euros and over 70 customers worldwide. MBDA has 10,000 employees based across the UK, France, Italy and the USA.
MBDA operates in all of the major world markets and is the only company in its sector able to design and produce missile systems for land-based, naval and airborne requirements.
In addition, Alan Garwood, the present head of DESO, was seconded from MBDA.