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Red Sea incident rubbed salt in commercial sore between France's Thales, MBDA

An attack on the Saudi Arabia's Al Makkah frigate by Houthi forces on January 30 revived another war: the one between Thales and MBDA to equip the Saudi navy with missiles. [...] (449 words)

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