SOFINS 2025 – CILAS HELMA-LP, a portable laser weapon against static targets
Leveraging the experience acquired with its HELMA-P laser system, tested by the French Navy and used to secure some events
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Sea Warden: a battle-ready system to counter the un-crewed threat from MBDA
5 November 2024 – MBDA is adapting to the challenges of the evolving aerial and surface drone threats in the
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Eurosatory 2024 – The MRAP is dead, long live the MRAP: first public appearance of SOFRAME Sakhar
In the early 2000s, with most western armies deployed in operations other than war, a new concept of vehicle was
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Surface-based air defence leads MBDA growth
At the yearly MBDA Group press conference, Eric Béranger, the CEO of the European missile company, stated that in 2023
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MBDA and Safran take a majority stake in CILAS
Paris, November 2, 2022 – Safran Electronics & Defense and MBDA have completed the acquisition of ArianeGroup’s 63% majority stake
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MBDA further details its Sky Warden C-UAS system
By Joseph Roukoz With the drone threat increasing both in the civil as well as in the military domain, MBDA
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19 July 2021 – LUMIBIRD, the European leader in laser technologies, has signed an exclusive agreement with AREVA to acquire
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SOFINS 2021: a laser against UAVs from CILAS
The fight against Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) has become critical, especially after the lessons learned during the Nagorno-Karabakh war. At
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TALOS consortium, led by CILAS, will pave the way to EU high-power lasers
As part of the «Preparatory Action on Defence Research» (PADR), the European Defence Agency (EDA) launched in March 2018 several
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