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Saturday, January 06, 2007

MBDA Receives Notification of SCALP Naval Contract

SCALP Naval missileMBDA has received notification from the French defence procurement agency, the DGA (Délégation Générale pour l'Armement), of the development and production contract for 250 SCALP Naval missiles, the naval cruise missiles destined to equip the French Navy's FREMM multi-mission frigates and Barracuda submarines. 200 missiles will be for the FREMM and 50 for the Barracuda.

The contract, dated 29th December 2006, is made up of four tranches with the first tranche coming into force with this notification and covering the delivery of 50 missiles for the FREMM frigates in 2013.

The value of the contract is 910 million euros.

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8/1/07 12:48

    Great! I hope France makes it available for export as well.

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