MBDA

MBDA was created in December 2001 by combining the missile businesses of Airbus (then EADS), BAE Systems and Leonardo (then Finmeccanica), and is headquartered in Le Plessis-Robinson, near Paris. Airbus and BAE Systems each own 37.5% of the company and Leonardo owns 25%, so it has no listed shares of its own. It has national arms in France, the UK, Italy and Germany and fields about 45 weapon systems for 90 armed forces, from Storm Shadow/SCALP, Exocet and Brimstone strike missiles to Aster, CAMM and Mistral air defense and the Meteor and MICA air-to-air missiles. It earns revenue from development, production and support contracts with governments and joint procurement agencies such as OCCAR. In 2025 revenue was €5.8 billion, orders reached €13.2 billion and the year-end backlog was €44.4 billion. MBDA plans to invest €5 billion from 2026 through 2030 and to hire about 2,800 people in 2026. Jean-Brice Dumont, head of military air systems at Airbus Defence and Space, succeeds Eric Béranger as CEO on November 1, 2026.