The
new MPCVs will be integrated within the customer’s
existing air defence architecture which is based on already
in-service systems deploying MBDA’s Mistral missile.
MPCV will add a number of inherent qualities such as its
fire power, reactivity, its protection of personnel as
well as its operational coverage.
Final
qualification of the MPCV system was pronounced in 2010
after a series of test firings. These tests culminated
with a firing demonstration against a number of targets
representing a saturating air attack. Various overseas
delegations witnessed this demonstration which took place
at the DGA’s (France's Direction Générale
de l’Armement) missile test firing centre at Biscarosse
in the Landes region of France. The first series production
MPCV vehicle should be delivered as of 2013.
Commenting
on this latest export success, Antoine Bouvier, Chief
Executive Officer of MBDA said: “The MPCV programme
illustrates how MBDA can optimise the investments already
made by its customers. Starting from the base of a market
standard such as Mistral missile of which some 17,000
have already been produced, we have devised an easy to
use and highly automated system which significantly increases
the capabilities of the missiles already in service with
our customers”.
