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Saturday, November 02, 2013

DRDO MBDA agreement soon on short range missile

MBDAAn agreement is expected to be inked shortly between the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and MBDA Missile Systems to design and co-produce SR SAMs (short range surface-to-air missiles) even as the European company seeks to improve its footprint in India.

“We are considering India as a long-term strategic partner and we are increasing our footprint from the commercial and industrial point of view,” head of MBDA in India Loic Piedvache told The Hindu during a tour conducted for a group of Indian journalists at MBDA’s facilities in Schrobenhausen, near Munich, in Germany and Lostock in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Piedvache sought to underline the importance MBDA was attaching to India by pointing out that for it was for the first time that the company had agreed to produce a brand new product (SR SAM) outside the European countries.

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