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MBDA France is the French national company within MBDA's integrated European missile group, centered on missile design, development, programme management, production, integration, testing, support, and pyrotechnic work across French sites including Le Plessis-Robinson, Selles-Saint-Denis, and Bourges. Its public role is tied to French sovereign missile capability and to MBDA product families that cover air dominance, force protection, air defense, battlefield, tactical strike, and deep-strike missions.
1 weaponsMBDA describes its French organization as a major part of the French defence industrial ecosystem, working with aerospace, electronics, communications, start-up, SME, and major-group partners while employing more than 5,500 people in France. The Le Plessis-Robinson site hosts design, development, and programme-management teams; Selles-Saint-Denis houses final integration and pyrotechnic production lines; Bourges Subdray focuses on environmental and propulsion testing, test benches, launchers, countermeasures, and dismantling; and Bourges Aeroport produces equipment, mechanical structures, complex composites, electromechanical equipment, spares, and repairs.
The French company sits inside MBDA's wider multinational governance model, whose shareholders are Airbus, BAE Systems, and Leonardo. MBDA traces its present structure to the December 2001 consolidation of major French, UK, and Italian missile activities, with the European Meteor air-to-air missile becoming MBDA's first contract in December 2002. MBDA France is most directly connected to French-origin missile families and French national procurement lines such as Mistral and MICA, while some MBDA products are multinational programmes rather than single-country products.
Mistral is MBDA's very-short-range air-defense missile family with ground, naval, vehicle, and helicopter launch configurations. MBDA describes Mistral 3 as a multi-domain, multi-platform missile ecosystem tied to French force-protection and air-defense capabilities.
Sources: MISTRAL Family | MBDA, MBDA in France | MBDA
MICA is a French air-to-air missile family for Rafale and Mirage 2000-5 aircraft, with RF and imaging-infrared seeker variants and later MICA NG procurement for French Rafales. It is catalog-connected as a France-origin MBDA system.
Sources: MICA | MBDA, French Ministry order for 367 MICA NG missiles | MBDAMBDA says the group was created in December 2001 after France, Italy, and the UK agreed with EADS, BAE Systems, and Finmeccanica to consolidate major missile-sector companies.
Sources: Our History | MBDA
MBDA identifies the European Meteor air-to-air missile project, bringing together France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, as the first contract awarded to the group.
Sources: Our History | MBDA
MBDA reported that the French Defence Procurement Agency notified an order for 367 MICA NG missiles for delivery between 2028 and 2031, following 200 already ordered for delivery from 2026 onward.
Sources: French Ministry order for 367 MICA NG missiles | MBDA
MBDA France is documented as a national company within MBDA's integrated European group. Some MBDA missile families are multinational programmes or group-level products, so weapon-specific manufacturer fields should distinguish French national-company sourcing from wider MBDA group sourcing.
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Systems that contest aircraft, missiles, helicopters, and drones.