The UK Ministry of Defense has signed a contract worth over 400 million strerlines with MBDA for the development of the SPEAR precision air / surface missile.
The contract will extend to the 2020 and will provide 350 with highly qualified missile professionals in the MBDA sites of Stevenage, Bristol and Lostock, with an equivalent number of employees in the supply chain.
The SPEAR missile was developed to meet British precision requirements related to the F-35, with the option (optionally) to extend them to the Typhoons.
SPEAR will have to engage long-range, mobile, fleeting and relocalizable targets in any weather, day or night and in the presence of countermeasures and camouflage.
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