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🎬 Hear how #Orchestrike, our innovative collaborative weapons technology, is making #SPEAR the first #AI-enabled cruise missile. Greg, our expert, talks about its rapid advances in the last 12 months and how our simulator at #FIA2024 features real AI and real missile hardware to immerse visitors in the tactical situation👇

At Farnborough International 2024, MBDA is unveiling groundbreaking solutions to combat the growing threat of #drones. Our Sky Warden system offers a robust, adaptable approach to counter-uncrewed aerial systems, ensuring comprehensive protection from detection to neutralisation. With innovations like the integration of our new supersonic MANPADS #VSHORAD and our ground-launched anti-air munition concept with Fortem Technologies, MBDA is at the forefront of #AirDefence. Let's explore those #innovations further!⬇️ #FIA2024

🚀 Discover the rapid advances MBDA has made to the #Orchestrike collaborative weapons artificial intelligence (AI) over the past 12 months, showcasing MBDA’s unique technologies and expertise in Europe for delivering the decisive air domain missile capabilities to enable our armed forces to defend our values and freedoms.🛡️

🇬🇧 MBDA and the UK Ministry of Defence have renewed their strategic partnership on complex weapons for a further decade, with a renewed Portfolio Management Agreement (PMA). Known as #PMA2 and worth at least £6.5 billion, the agreement will deliver battle winning complex weapons to the UK #ArmedForces faster, at lower cost and with greater agility. PMA2 will also support jobs, skills and industrial investment in the UK. PMA2 will build upon the many successes of the past decade and enables better #collaboration with allies across Europe.

MBDA is ready to kick-off the 2024 Farnborough International Airshow tomorrow! 🛫 As the European leader in the #defence industry, we will showcase our range of complex weapon systems and capabilities designed to meet the security needs of armed forces in a changing geopolitical context. 📍 Come and discover our latest innovations all week long on our booth: E032!

The testing phase is a pivotal moment in the life of a missile. Our objective: to replicate a flight-like environment as closely as possible. #HWIL, short for ‘Hardware In the Loop’, plays a crucial role in #aerospace #engineering by integrating missile onboard equipment into a #simulation loop for comprehensive testing and validation. ✅ At MBDA, these simulations are vital for: • Testing and validating core functions such as Navigation, Control, and Guidance. • Evaluating safety features, control commands, and flight phase management logic. • Securing development firing trials. • Significantly contributing to the validation and qualification of the entire missile system. This is why HWIL is an essential component of #aerospace technology advancement: ensuring the safety and reliability of our #missilesystems before actual deployment.

At the NATO Summit held in Washington D.C., France, Germany, Italy and Poland stated their will for a sovereign precision deep strike capability, co-signing a "European Long Range Strike Approach" letter of intent. ✍️ European #defence needs strong #cooperation to develop new capabilities for its armed forces. This letter of intent marks a new step for #European industry, and a milestone in the acquisition of reliable and efficient deep strike solutions responding to the evolution of threats on the battlefield. MBDA has demonstrated unrivalled ability to leverage European expertise in developing such capabilities. The "European Long Range Strike Approach" letter of intent is a major opportunity to advance strategic European cooperation and foster innovation in defence, now and in the future. Only MBDA has the technologies, expertise and cross-border partnership to deliver European-designed deep strike systems enabling our armed forces to defend our values and freedoms.

🌐 MBDA attended the "Defence Industry Forum" held for the very first time during a NATO summit in Washington D.C., reaffirming our position as one of the world leaders in the #defence industry.     Thomas Gottschild, Executive Group Director Strategy, led the conversation about today’s challenging geostrategic context, and the role MBDA plays in supporting the armed forces around the world:    ▪️Ground-based air defence capabilities are pivotal to meet the evolution of the battlefield. MBDA systems such as Brimstone, SAMP/T, MISTRAL, Storm Shadow and Scalp-EG have proven their high military value in combat. ▪️While addressing the needs of a high-intensity conflict, we have been confronted to the high consumption of ammunition. This raises a new challenge for us: scaling and speeding up our production to meet the rising demand. MBDA takes its responsibilities: we are investing 2.4 billion euros from 2023 to 2028 to support our production rates, develop new equipment and strengthen our most valuable asset: people. This event highlights the increasing importance of the industrial dimension of defence for NATO and the allies, and the need to foster transatlantic #cooperation. It's part of MBDA's DNA to work hand-in-hand with international organisations and governments from our home nations and partners, to leverage our long-lasting expertise and ultimately, strengthen the global defence ecosystem. #NATOPA 

Artificial Intelligence & Data are key components of our activities and feed our #innovation strategy. It is crucial to foster the debate in order to stay ahead in #defence. 🎙️ This series about Open Innovation gives a voice to our experts to discuss #AI and #Data: today we are getting into details regarding the role of Data and AI in operational activities at MBDA. Through innovation and new technologies, we can build a stronger future for defence.

🤝 MBDA has received a contract from Germany to manufacture and supply #Brimstone 3 precision strike #missiles for the Bundeswehr’s #Eurofighter combat aircraft. A final assembly line and service centre will be set up at MBDA’s Schrobenhausen site. Eric Beranger, CEO of MBDA, highlighted that Germany's procurement of Brimstone 3 is a “decisive contribution to the harmonisation of armaments in Europe and the Bundeswehr's ammunition stockpile.” Brimstone 3 offers unmatched accuracy, effectiveness, and reliability, integrated onto various platforms including the Eurofighter, Eurodrone, MQ-9B, land vehicles, and helicopters. 🗞️ Learn more in the Press Release: https://fcld.ly/i9hz4w8