MBDA gets ASRAAM contract from U.K.

The Royal Air Force has placed a £300 million contract with MBDA for more AIM-132 ASRAAM missiles. The missiles will be produced at MBDA’s new Bolton manufacturing and assembly site that will be commissioned in mid-2016.

RAF Typhoon Firing ASRAAM Missile MOD 45155899
Photo: Geoffrey Lee/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons

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