{"id":69672,"date":"2025-03-18T14:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/03\/18\/europes-top-missile-maker-mbda-boosts-output-33-amid-record-orders\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:09:06","slug":"europes-top-missile-maker-mbda-boosts-output-33-amid-record-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2025\/03\/18\/europes-top-missile-maker-mbda-boosts-output-33-amid-record-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s top missile maker MBDA boosts output 33% amid record orders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PARIS \u2014 MBDA, Europe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2025\/03\/17\/europes-very-own-missile-for-piercing-air-defenses-is-years-away\/\">largest missile maker<\/a>, boosted production and deliveries by 33% in 2024, as demand from European governments for air defense and battlefield munitions lifted orders to a record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The maker of Aster air-defense interceptors, the SCALP-EG\/Storm Shadow cruise missile and Exocet anti-ship weapon expects missile production to double this year from the 2023 level, Chief Executive Officer \u00c9ric B\u00e9ranger said at a press conference here on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MBDA orders have surged since Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with European countries spending billions to strengthen their air defenses as well as help Ukraine. The company may stand to gain further over concerns whether the U.S. is a reliable supplier of weapons for Europe, as President Donald Trump threatens to withhold NATO security guarantees, increasingly aligns with Russia and talks of annexing Canada and Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a little bit a moment of truth for Europe,\u201d B\u00e9ranger said. \u201cWe have all the technological capabilities that we need, we have the brains, which means that it is really a matter of what we want to do in Europe, what position we want to reach. This is the reason why the moment is absolutely historic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MBDA is the only Western company besides American firms capable of producing \u201cthe full range of complex weapons,\u201d B\u00e9ranger said. The company makes short, medium and long-range air-defense missiles, cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles and anti-tank munitions, and is developing a hypersonic interceptor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is a pan-European joint venture between Airbus, the U.K.\u2019s BAE Systems and Italy\u2019s Leonardo, and is based in a suburb southwest of Paris. Local units in the U.K., France, Germany and Italy allow governments there to shield some national defense interests from the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MBDA\u2019s orders jumped to a record \u20ac13.8 billion (US$15 billion) last year from \u20ac9.9 billion in 2023, and compared to \u20ac5.1 billion in 2021, before Russia invaded Ukraine. Meanwhile, sales rose to \u20ac4.9 billion from \u20ac4.5 billion a year earlier. The order backlog end-December reached \u20ac37 billion, the highest ever, from \u20ac28 billion at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The war in Ukraine and attacks by Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea since 2023 have raised the profile of MBDA products, several of which now carry the \u201ccombat proven\u201d tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B\u00e9ranger mentioned the downing of a Sukhoi fighter jet by Ukraine using a French-Italian SAMP\/T system with Aster missiles, and Ukraine\u2019s use of SCALP\/Storm Shadow. French and British warships have used Aster to down anti-ship ballistic missiles in the Red Sea, and the CEO said the Italian Navy has also used the interceptor there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn 2024 you may have seen that the MBDA products were used in a number of theaters and were used in a very reliable way,\u201d B\u00e9ranger said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denmark last week shortlisted SAMP\/T for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmi.dk\/da\/nyheder\/2025\/pm---feltet-indsnavret-til-jordbaseret-luftforsvar\/\"><u>planned purchase<\/u><\/a> of air defense systems, in competition with the U.S. Patriot system, to cover the high end of the threat spectrum. For the lower end, MBDA\u2019s VL MICA system is facing off with Kongsberg\u2019s NASAMS, the IRIS-T SLM from Diehl Defense, and the U.S. IFPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France, Italy and the U.K. last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/sites\/default\/files\/ministere-armees\/Press%20release_Additional%20Aster%20missiles%20France%2C%20Italy%2C%20United%20Kingdom%20to%20deepens%20air%20defence%20missile%20stock.pdf\"><u>confirmed an order<\/u><\/a> for an additional 218 Aster missiles, including the Aster 30 B1 variant for the three countries\u2019 navies and French and Italian SAMP\/T systems, and the shorter-range Aster 15 for the French Navy. That follows a French-Italian order in December 2022 for 700 Aster missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B\u00e9ranger said with regards to buying European or non-European, the priority should be to keep the design authority in-house. That\u2019s what allowed MBDA to adapt Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles to Ukrainian Sukhoi aircraft within only a few weeks, he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was absolutely not foreseen for this, but because we did have the design authority in Europe, we had the knowledge, and we had the authority to decide how to do it,\u201d B\u00e9ranger said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO declined to say which MBDA products are subject to U.S. export regulations or contain U.S.-sourced components, but said \u201cevery time our customers want us to be desensitized, we can do that, and we are doing that.\u201d The company worked in 2019 to rid SCALP of parts subject to the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulation, after the U.S. blocked the sale of the cruise missile to Egypt in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is set to invest \u20ac2.4 billion through to 2029 to accelerate production, and targets 2,600 new hires this year. 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