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MBDA Releases ‘Concept Visions’ Initiative For Integrated Fire Support

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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

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MBDA has a new company wide drive called Concept Visions to develop highly innovative fire support system concepts to shape the future defense market in key areas for 2030 and beyond. The initiative was released at the Farnborough International Airshow yesterday by the missile systems MBDA, which is jointly held by BAE Systems, EADS, and Finmeccanica. The resulting Concept Visions outputs present an integrated fire support solution for dismounted infantry and addresses the challenges they would face when operating in…

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