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MBDA is a European missile manufacturer that was formed from the merger of France’s Matra, Alenia Marconi Systems and Matra BAE Dynamics. The company often competes for contracts with Raytheon. It developed the Meteor and the Storm Shadow missiles that are used by the British and French armies.

Insiders FRANCE MIDDLE EAST 05/12/2013

Omar Zeidan, the doyen of Franco-Arabian deal-makers 

Omar Zeidan is one of the best-connected among the established agents of French industry in the Arab world. He is still very active in 2013, steering through projects in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and partnering investments of the Al-Assad clan in Syria. At the same time, he is trying to establish himself in Libya and is continuing to advance his own investment projects in Africa generally. After hav [...]

EUROPE 04/12/2013

Enders targets "bullshit castle" 

EADS' reorganisation under the Airbus brand has likely signed the death warrant of the marketing & strategy unit, or SMO, the light cavalry of the group's major export programmes. [...]

SINGAPORE 06/11/2013

DCNS/TKMS face off in Singapore 

The German and French shipbuilders are squaring up over a $1.8 billion contract to supply three state-of-the-art submarines to Singapore. [...]

Insiders MIDDLE EAST 23/10/2013

The Al Kaabi family, operating arm of the Emir of Abu Dhabi 

Fadel Al Kaabi, formerly of the Tawazun sovereign fund, set up the International Golden Group (IGG) in 2002. The company, which is headed by Fadel's uncle, former armed forces deputy chief of staff Mohammed Hilal Al Kaabi, specialises in partnerships with Western defence groups like France's Thales, Britain's BAE, Paramount of South Africa and Italy's Selex. In 2013, IGG also went into partnership [...]

Spotlight SAUDI ARABIA UNITED STATES 25/09/2013

Riyadh rethinks military without US 

US moves in the region in the past couple of years have prompted some serious thought in Saudi Arabia: Despite the two countries' alliance, would Barack Obama intervene militarily if the Saudi monarchy came under threat? Doubts have been fuelled [...]

Insiders ASIAEUROPE 18/07/2013

Dick Evans, the Kazakhstan connections of an arms industry high-flier 

After having served as the high profile chairman and chief executive of BAE Systems from 1998 to 2004, Richard "Dick" Evans has been putting his talents to use in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan. President Nursultan Nazarbayev recruited him in October 2006 to run the country's sovereign fund, Samruk. Then, in 2008, he became an independent director of Samruk-Kazyna, which was formed through the merg [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 10/07/2013

Al Bu-Ainnain reps French and US groups 

As well as being Dassault and MBDA’s agent in the United Arab Emirates (IOL 606), former Emirati Air Force commander [...]

Spotlight FRANCE QATAR 26/06/2013

Soulié, deal broker for French groups 

Qatar, which President François Hollande visited on June 22-23, is not only Paris' ally in the Middle East and a principal foreign investor in France, it is also a key country for French groups such as Thales and Total. French [...]

GERMANY FRANCE 10/04/2013

Germany and France's undersea battles 

Germany’s HDW and France’s DCNS are daggers drawn over three huge contracts for conventional submarines. [...]

TURKEY 12/12/2012

NATO boosts Raytheon and Lockheed 

At least five Patriot batteries, each containing eight engagement control stations, will be deployed on the border between Turkey and [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 17/10/2012

Sale time at Thales 

According to our sources, Thales is considering selling one of [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 05/09/2012

Raytheon challenges Thales and MBDA 

After slugging it out for the past six months over the huge Mark-3 contract to modernise Saudi Arabia’s short-range air [...]

FRANCE 22/02/2012

Broken Exocets cause spat with Nigeria 

According to our sources, France is trying to resolve a dispute that has hampered French military exports to Nigeria, Western [...]

TURKEY FRANCE 08/02/2012

Genocide law bad for business 

The law approved by the French parliament on January 23 making it a criminal offence in to deny the Armenian [...]

INDIA ISRAEL 11/01/2012

IAI wins Indian contracts totalling $1.4 billion 

While MBDA scooped a €950 million contract last week to [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES FRANCE 23/11/2011

Juppe's mission fails 

After he was hastily dispatched to the United Arab Emirates [...]

MALAYSIA FRANCE 14/09/2011

Major deal close for DCNS 

DCNS and MBDA are in the final phase of negotiating [...]

FRANCE LIBYA 27/07/2011

Paris’ spares no expense in Libya 

France, which took the lead in the intervention against Gaddhafi, is also the biggest contributor to the military effort. [...]

FRANCE AFGHANISTAN 13/04/2011

Souvim 2 soon in service 

Coveted by rival industrial groups, two counter-mining vehicles equipped with [...]

Spotlight CHINA FRANCE PAKISTAN 16/03/2011

How Paris lost the Pakistani market 

Having sold Mirage aircraft, Agosta submarines and Mistral missiles to Pakistan, Paris was the country's principal military supplier for many years. But all that has changed. Today, the French are being progressively edged out of the market by China, which [...]