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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

India to procure MICA air-to-air missiles


India's Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has approved a €950m deal to procure 500 MICA air-to-air missiles from MBDA for the Indian Air Force's fleet of 51 Mirage 2000 aircraft.

Under the contract, MBDA will execute offset agreements worth 30% of the contract value as part of India's policy of demanding such agreements from overseas defence contractors.

The MBDA-built MICA is an anti-air, multi-target, all weather, fire-and-forget short and medium-range missile system designed for use by both air platforms as individual missiles as well as ground units and ships.

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