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MBDA Deutschland at Schrobenhausen looking to expand production units and maintenance....and allegedly.... Germany will, finally, be getting Brimstone on Typhoon...

MBDA Deutschland baut Missile Hubs auf

Das Rüstungsunternehmen MBDA Deutschland will seine Produktion erheblich ausweiten, um die Versorgung der Bundeswehr mit Lenkflugkörpern verschiedener Klassen sicherzustellen.
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In addition, preparations are underway to procure the Brimstone air-to-surface guided missile for the Air Force, which is to be integrated on the Eurofighter, as Guido Brendler, Head of Sales and Business Development at MBDA, explained at a press event in Schrobenhausen today. The selection decision to introduce this weapon had already been made in the past decade, but was then no longer pursued with vigour. Here, too, MBDA Germany is thinking of an assembly line for the missile developed by the British sister company at the Schrobenhausen site.
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Interesting bit at the bottom of the Saab Arexis product page...
"Protecting high-value assets, the Arexis air-launched decoy can deceive a wide range of threats.The controls in the Arexis Air-Launched Decoy (SPEAR-EW) together with its network connectivity will detect and suppress the threats, keeping other high-value assets safe."

Saab did propose an EW decoy missile to Finland as part of their HX offer. Initially just a tiny CGI image on a Powerpoint, then at a trade show a Spear-EW turned up on the stand branded as Arexis, the presumption was that it would include a Saab designed EW package rather than the Leonardo Britecloud derived payload. It looks like they've abandoned that pretence now and are just re-branding Spear-EW...
 
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RASALGHUL said:
But, What about Funds?
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Cooperative programmes cost each of the participants much more than an equivalent national programme (especially if the Germans are involved). This is shown by the comparison between the Rafale programme and the Eurofighter programme, where each participant in the Eurofighter programme paid as much or more than France for fewer aircraft with less advanced specifications.
 
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Picdelamirand-oil said:
Cooperative programmes cost each of the participants much more than an equivalent national programme (especially if the Germans are involved). This is shown by the comparison between the Rafale programme and the Eurofighter programme, where each participant in the Eurofighter programme paid as much or more than France for fewer aircraft with less advanced specifications.
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It may be because french aero industry is quite better than others
 
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john0496 said:
It may be because french aero industry is quite better than others
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The reality is that the other Europeans want to develop systems in which they are technologically behind, in order to make up for their shortfall at the expense of the joint programme. To do this, they demand a return for their industry equal to their participation - the law of fair return. Dassault does not want to participate in programmes under this law; it wants the law of the best athlete, i.e. the development of a new system should be entrusted to the most advanced company in the field. This is seen as arrogance by others. :D
 
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Scholz: Germany won't deliver Eurofighters to S.Arabia in near future
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Germany will not deliver Eurofighter combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia in the near future, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, after a newspaper quoted a government document as linking any such move to an end of the war in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia leads a coalition that has been battling the Iranian-aligned Houthis in Yemen since 2015. The war has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions hungry.

"There will be no decision on the delivery of Eurofighter jets to Saudi Arabia any time soon," Scholz told reporters on the second day of a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

A government source told Reuters that Germany would not decide the issue during this legislative term, which ends in 2025.

Earlier on Wednesday, Germany's SZ newspaper cited an internal government document as saying that "applications for export licences for Saudi Arabia will be postponed until the end of the war in Yemen".

Germany halted arms sales to Saudi Arabia following the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, taking a far tougher approach than major allies such as the United States, France and Britain.

But since the rapprochement of Saudi Arabia and Iran earlier this year, Britain has argued that Germany can no longer block the export of Eurofighter jets to third parties.

Britain's BAE Systems (BAES.L) struck a deal five years ago for the arms maker to supply 48 of the jets in question, but a third of the components for the jets come from Germany.

According to reports earlier this month, Germany's governing coalition was at odds over whether to cede to British pressure, with the Greens strongly opposed to the move.
 
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