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Sweden Signs Production Order Contract for Meteor Missile

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Monday, September 27th, 2010

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The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) on 17 Sept. signed a production order contract with United Kingdom MOD regarding the Meteor missile. With the Meteor missile the JAS39 Gripen system gets a significantly increased capability to operate against air targets at long distances with very high performance, FMV said. The Meteor is a Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile. The European co-operation behind the Meteor missile system began in 2002 with UK as lead nation and Germany, France, Italy,…

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