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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

MBDA Produces 1000th Aster Missile

Aster 30 - SAMP/T air defence missile system |The end of November 2012 marked the achievement of another key milestone in the history of the Aster family of missiles.

Not only had all the naval and ground based air and missile defence capabilities been qualified - with the various supplied systems having also entered operational service with their respective domestic and export customers – but significantly, the integration and final assembly of the 1,000th Aster missile was also completed at MBDA’s Selles-Saint-Denis R&D and production facility in the Centre region of France.

This significant production milestone is further evidence of both the maturity and the success of the Aster family of air defence missiles developed through a major European cooperative programme led by OCCAR on behalf of France andItaly.

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