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Thursday, January 17, 2013

£14m contract for RAF Brimstone missiles

Brimstone missile |A new £14 million contract to increase the RAF’s arsenal of precision attack weapons has been announced by the Ministry of Defence.

The Brimstone missiles are carried by RAF Tornado aircraft in Afghanistan and were also used on operations over Libya.

Manufactured and assembled at MBDA facilities in Henlow, Bedfordshire, and Lostock, Bolton, the Dual Mode Seeker Brimstone (DMSB) missile is used by RAF crews to engage moving or static targets at day or night with pin point accuracy.

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