MBDA’s Fire Shadow weapon system, assembled in Bolton, has successfully completed a series of demonstration trials and two more firings in a development programme launched in March 2010.
This paves the way for a planned entry into service next year with the British Army. Surface launched, the munitions have a range of about 100 km and can conduct a direct transit to target or be positioned to loiter in the airspace for a significant time (about 6 hours). The first of the firings,…
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