MBDA’s Scalp Cruise Missiles for French Navy
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On December 29, 2006, MBDA has received a development and production contract from the French DGA defence procurement agency for 250 SCALP Naval land attack missiles. Scalp naval cruise missiles are variants of the air-launched Storm Shadow, and are destined to equip the French Navy’s FREMM multi-mission frigates (200 missiles)* and new SSN Barracuda Class submarines (50 missiles). The value of the contract is EUR 910 million (currently about $1.2 billion).
Production of the SCALP Naval missiles will be carried out in Selles Saint Denis, MBDA’s central region site in France. The contract, is made up of 4 tranches, with the first tranche coming into force with this notification and covering the delivery of 50 missiles for the FREMM frigates in 2013.
MBDA is jointly owned by BAE Systems (37.5%), EADS (37.5%) and Finmeccanica (25%).
- = The land attack version of FREMM is currently in limbo.
