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Saturday, May 14, 2011
'Numerous export enquiries' for Meteor missile, says UK MoD
With development work on MBDA's Meteor entering its final year, the UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the beyond visual-range air-to-air missile has attracted strong international interest.
"Meteor has been the subject of numerous export enquiries from around the world, with some nations considering the possibility of making an order," the MoD's Defence Equipment and Support organisation said in its Desider publication.
Being developed for partner nations France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK as a replacement for the Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM, the Meteor weapon system will arm the nations' Dassault Rafales, Eurofighter Typhoons and Saab Gripens from mid-decade.
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